Concerned lawyers in support of Craig Kelly and hydroxychloroquine … Lockdown class action in the pipeline, somewhere … Bill of Rights (1688) where are you? … False medical advice … State of non-emergency and other disturbances … Burn your masks 

Victorian Supreme Court judge’s silken advice in a property dispute was negligent … Damages of $1.185 million to be shared with law shop … Inadequate information to support advice … Hopefully, insurers will save the judge’s bacon … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

Lawyers have to be fit and proper – why not the attorney general? … Schmo Morrison’s crack legal team on hand … Silk emails the PM to set him straight … Where to now with Porter? … Polly Peck in Canberra 

Piles of moolah at stake … The Christian meddles in litigation with Minter’s media clients … “Purposes and values” gets rolled … Onward march of the (Big) Swinging Dicks 

Judges bailing out of the family courts at an alarming rate … Delirium over merged courts fiasco … No sign of a functioning attorney general … Two Wigs Willy running the shop from Hobart … Depleated appeal division … New FCFCA bureau de spank for judges … Still no certainty for an ancient “black hole” case   

“It just didn’t happen” … But will it go away? … Pushing through … Holes in the case … First law officer with an unresolved allegation of rape … Career on hold, but ultimately kaput … Polly Peck on the case 

Prêt à porter … Horse in fetid stable … Rule of Law … Rule of the Jungle … Political imperatives … Statement expected in bold volte face … Polly Peck reports COMMENT: More like inapte à porter

Madges under pressure … NSW’s chief beak Graeme Henson unhappy with slow government response to Local Court crisis … Pleading for more resources on multiple occasions … New appointments filling retirements … 10 more Madges needed … Ginger Snatch reports  COMMENT: URL: For all his commendable efforts, I fault Chief Magistrate Graeme Henson AM for the poor oversight and insufficient discipline in case management in the Local Court of NSW.

I have personally written to the Chief about the wasting of time by failing to appropriate schedule litigants for hearing. Instead of requiring all litigants and their lawyers to show up at 9:30 am and hearing the lawyers first, then the self-reps, with regular interruptions, the Downing Centre could allocate groups to timeslots. There is little respect for litigants' time.

Moreover, magistrates are generally not disposed to deal with complex matters efficiently, using a combination of "kick this to another magistrate" or "let's deal with this after lunch" or "the other side needs more time, I'll grant that adjournment".

This approach pays no respect to the mounting costs litigants pay every 6 minutes, nor to litigants' time.

I have seen similar behaviour in the District Court of NSW.

Personally, given the monotony of Local Court cases, I would have expected that a novel or complex issue might be of interest to a trained legal mind that would otherwise be focused on the question of whether to give a section, section 10 or a big fat fine.

And yet, somehow, the hard cases are required to arrive early, and then made to sit around, waiting for the judicial officer to turn their mind to the question at the end of the day, when natural decision fatigue, physical exhaustion and crankiness has set in.

We can do better, Chief.