Sorry Sandy … Judicial friends take divergent paths … “Plainly wrong” … “High esteem” … Immigration assessments made prior to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan … Ignoring the changed circumstances in the Islamic Emirate … Comity and “principle” … FCFC judges at sixes and sevens … Max Shanahan reports 

2021 down the gurgler … Recapping some easily forgettable moments before we’re entirely drowning in 2022 … Glimpses of Justinian’s restless news reports … A year of lawyers and the law 

Three decisions involving lawyer conduct brought up the rear in the year just gone … From Perth, Sydney and Melbourne … Public birching … Child porn, false allegations and failure to disclose … Eamonn Murphy reports 

NSW Court of Appeal protects offensive barrister … Identity kept under wraps for 20 years … Resignations and redundancies at the bar association, the law society and the AAT … Judge denounces boring dinner parties … Political hacks seeking credit for judicial appointment … Theodora reports  COMMENT: I propose a national conversation about a diversity of ritualised greetings, for any season.

The High Court in the 1930s … Judges bickering and distrustful of each other … Drawing on dairy notes, Gideon Haigh details the disharmony … Was this a period of peak judicial unhappiness … Justice in the hands of riven justices … C.N. Brown reporting

Judge on trial … Federal Court proceedings against Salvatore Vasta … Poor judicial conduct runs in the blood … Ancient cases examined during trial of the FCFC judge for abuse of process … Max Shanahan reports on the hearing 

Buckley gets a chance … Law Society required to cough-up more documents in disciplinary case … Extra material would not be too much of a distraction for NCAT … Challenge to public health orders by anti-vaxxers thrown out by NSW judges … Arguments “blunt and unnuanced” … Crowdfunded litigation and a lawyer’s fiduciary duties … Alan Zheng reports

Employment lawyer loses latest round in employment case … Lengthy struggle … Nor much resolved … No deceit by Norton Rose … Self-serving puffery … Big law firm not deceitful … Max Shanahan reports