Sexual intercourse … Onus of proof … Loss of a ship at sea … Dicta of Michael Lee in Lehrmann … House of Lords and Sherlock Holmes … Unsatisfactory witnesses … Federal Circuit Court unable to make findings … Case dismissed … Ginger Snatch reports

Local Court Madge goes head-to-head with “truculent” brief in finger licking case … Shouting match … Crossing the line … “First warning” … Transcript … Historical note .. Reflections on defending vigorously … Anthony Kanaan reports

Family dramas out west … Justinian’s solemn duty to point out where things go awry … Rapid-rise family judge fails to explain … Parenting orders revisited on appeal … Order for equal parenting that nobody wanted … Anthony Kanaan reports

Senior Member of the AAT’s broadside against respected migration lawyers … Accusations of dishonesty and lacking integrity … Claim that lawyers are minting money from worthless case … Complaints lodged … Appeal to come … Dismay ripples through the trade

Hellish judgment from the Circuit Court … Riparian water rights … Wars of the 21st century … Litigants and dangerous sexual offender left in limbo by WA Supremes … From our Courtside Correspondent

Churn at the Federal Court … Executives move on … Acting appointments … AAT recruitments … Down the garden path with CourtPath … Jackboots uncensored … Felicity Fume reports

A forgotten judgment emerges from the bottom drawer … Fault lies elsewhere … The ghost of Bookshelves Brandis … Huge delay working out GST and its role in business turnover … Federale judges birched by the Fulls and the Saloon … Ginger Snatch reports

Motor car accident … No real challenge as to liability … $1,699.69 in dispute for rear end repair bill … Plaintiff ordered to pay 95% of the legal costs – currently at $150,000 … Prize for astounding damages to costs ratio … Anthony Kanaan report