NSW bar … Covid creates a different world for barristers … Can it ever be the same again? … Clinging on … The chambers model’s uncertain future … Expenses trimmed … Curate’s egg … Some parts thriving … Younger briefs need helping hands … JJJ hearings 

NSW cabinet changes … Dutch reformist in ascendency … Anti-corruption firebrand chafing in the nether region … Judicial recognition of the Taliban … New eftpos machine arrives in Hobart … Angelo Vasta RIP … Rule of law hysterics about ICAC … Theodora reports 

NT policeman charged with murder of Indigenous man … High Court to hear special leave and appeal together … Core functions of police force … Protection for civil or criminal acts committed by police … How far does police protection run? … “Unjustified” trial delay … Anna Kretowicz reports

Shocking case of protracted lying to a client … Tasmanian misconduct … Unconscionable delays … Failure to commence workers compensation proceedings for five years … Elaborate pretence … Desperation … Other troubles … Farewell to the jam roll 

An abundance of caution … Porter sunk and lost on the “fit and proper” standard … The politician who shot himself in both knees … End is nigh … Previous explanations full of holes … More about the trust 

Laying it on thick at swearing-in ceremonies … Facts ignored in the face of too much grovel …  Quick judge spanked for slowing down the works … Anti-rights zealot plonked into the human rights chair … Groper reports from Perth  COMMENT: How dare the government appoint a human rights commissioner who actally believes in human rights (like free speech, due process and the presumption of innocence), over made-up collectivist entitlements…

A WIN win … Atanaskovic unsuccessful in fight over bill … Client charged for investigation into money filched by firm’s employee … Promise not to charge … Work infected by conflict … No informed consent … Goodbye $150,000 … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

Chambers lockdown as Covid strikes gilded floor … Cows come home in well-executed judicial flourish … Family lawyers urged to wise-up to “reputation risk management” … Magistrate sticks his beak into reworking the prosecution case … Theodora reports