Important case on search warrants … Police seize the mobile phone of a solicitor … Investigation into a shooting … Law Society protocol on search warrants … Requirement for warrant to specify in detail the information sought … Give the phone back … Anthony Kanaan reports

Sustained problems at the Circuit and Family Courts … Handballing cases up and down the food chain … Rev Christian Porter’s unfortunate legacy … Unwinding the duel kingdoms of Willy Alstergren CJ CJ … What has happened to “Ginger” McGrath? … From our Family Affairs Roundsperson

Snail paced deliveries … “Grossly inordinate” delays … Protracted decision making in relatively uncomplicated cases … Ginger Snatch reports

Aged solicitor not so doddery that he couldn’t use AI … Bogus AI generated citations in court submissions … Non-existent quotes … Off to the OLSC for birching … Name suppressed, naturally … Taco Bell CJ appears on the ABC to reiterate (partial) AI ban … Anthony Kanaan reports

Latest from the trouble prone Queensland branch of the Federales … Administrative law upsets … Sandy Street overturned … On the level in Canberra … Missing aged care accountant … Law shop managing director skewered … Ginger Snatch reports from courtrooms around the nation

Another costly Lehrmann decision … One more spin on the never-never … Arguable appeal discovered in the bowels of the Gazette of Law & Journalism … Odious litigants … Could Lee J have got it wrong on the meaning of rape? … Calpurnia reports from the Defamatorium

Costs breakthrough for migration lawyers who labour against the odds … Filing fees and professional costs ahoy … Full Federal Court overturns minister’s miserable approach to costs for successful applicants … Minister’s gilded team of briefs fail to move the Fulls