Gold Coast money dreams … Trading-Gambling scheme comes unglued … Investors cleaned out … Identity of conman hidden … False and misleading conduct … Solicitor aware of misrepresentations … Various squirrelling activities … Appeal fails … Anna Kretowicz on the case 

Life in lockdown proving perilous for parties in Willy Alstergren’s speedy callover regime for the Family and Circuit Courts … Callovers for cases already resolved or in their final stages … Pandemonium  

WA bar president pens feisty free-speech letter to preposterous backbench noise machine … Demands that silk be stripped of gongs … Loose thinking … WA bar reaches out in support of the right to express offensive views … Groper reports

What’s going on? … Another precious tribunal decision protecting the home side … Suppression order for a former solicitor with health issues … Growing retinue of lawyers with psychological issues … Doom beckons if identity is revealed … Hanging by a threat … Janek Drevikovsky reports

Expensive family law shop divorce … Negligent advice to stroke partner unable to work … Incomplete advice … NSW CA shaves nearly half-a-million from Rothman J’s award of damages … Commercial law firm still up for about $1 million in damages … Misery … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

Don’t bring your affidavits to Justice Lee … Federal Court judge delivers a bollicking … In remembrance of Lord Buckmaster … Witnesses statements by affidavit … Herbert Smith Freehills in the frame … Inauthentic accounts of evidence … Leaky wells … Legal drafting supplants “real words” … Janek Drevikovsky reports  COMMENT: I don't understand the comment that all witnesses should read their affidavits aloud because how would that remedy the problem. Did he say that all witnesses should give their evidence orally? COMMENT: Does this mean that HH will only give ex tempore judgments from here on?

Window into a weird world … Sydney solicitor, the hero of anti-vaxers … Turning the wolves on a journalist seeking information … Harassment … Media lawyers at 10 paces … Unsuccessful litigation on behalf of vax refuseniks … Crowdfunding for High Court challenge … Whether funds held in trust … Alan Zheng reporting 

Suppression order sought but not granted … Legal Services Commissioner’s jurisdictional drama … Misconduct findings overturned by Court of Appeal … Application to suppress details rejected … Another suppression attempt with NCAT also failed … Feelings of despair … Less work … Snubbed … Huge expense … Law Reform Commission … Alan Zheng reports