Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse … Judicial review of corruption finding … Intriguing submissions … Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor … The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue … Plenty to think about … Ginger Snatch reports

Birchings for Circus Court judge … Real estate drama … Tenancy nightmare … Adjournment application … Need to look after elderly dogs … Federal Court rides to the rescue. Plus … Court weighs visa applicant’s claim to be gay … Appeal lottery … Ginger Snatch reports courtside

Central Asian law firm in 20 year Sydney spat with former partner … The lost voice … The joys of disproportionate litigation … Prolixity … Penny ante disputes … Exasperation … Bureau de Spank looms … Plus ... Barrister in the sickbay … Application to vacate … Stoicism at the bar … Wrong for respondents to expect unwell counsel to appear … Anthony Kanaan reports

Court’s pride and prejudice … Perception problem with limited contract for judicial well-being induction … Aboriginal corporation stung by Federal Court beancounters for outrageous fees in public interest native title case … Sandy Street firing on all pistons … From our Courtside Correspondents

“Extraordinary and excessive” delay – by the litigants … Contest on costs … Getting to grips with Qld industrial law takes time … What is a “worker”? … What is an “injury”? … Justice Jenni frigging around … Slow grind for earnest Circuiteer … From judges’ associate Ginger Snatch

Hunt & Hunt writes to a judge … Unwarranted correspondence slapped down … Failure to reply to email from judge’s chambers … Impertinence … ART Deputy President birched … Failure to understand the law of legal professional privilege … Ginger Snatch reports 

Damn statistics … Federal Court mandarins inability to count … Revising figures for money spent on internal legal services … Answers squeezed out by questions at Senate Estimates … Transparency … From our FCA roundsman Phil Cake