Walter Mitty con artist gets lower sentence from the NSW CCA … Ponzi schemer fleeced friends, lovers and whoever else he could get his hands on … Deficient personality … Original sentence excessive and the result of an unbalanced process … Too much judicial emotion … Pep-talk to the media on reporting sentences … Victims still largely penniless … Alan Zheng reports 

Easy leader … Melbourne silk’s dominant brain … Thought processes divided into four categories … Porter’s ball management … AG’s top agenda items for 2021 … The vision splendid … Theodora reports  COMMENT: Any family lawyer who votes liberal after this effort by Porter deserves to be treated as if they are a member of the Vichy French. COMMENT: What is the collective noun for a group of liberal party ministers?
A corruption.

Covid puts a false gloss on chamber’s accounts … Directors in and out … Explanatory memo to members … Creative fiction and negative expenses … Big pile of unpaid floor fees … Refreshments cut 

Grand Poobah judicial snog … Thirst-quenching at fault … Late night knee balancing routine … News from The Map … Photo in circulation … From our Tasmanian affairs correspondent 

Inflated terrace decorations … Here comes “Mandy Jane” … Council of the Order of Australia gets Stoned … Law ‘n’ order at the Top End … Post-Covid life at Vic’s Bar ‘n’ Grill … Theodora does the rounds  COMMENT: The bit where Mr Cremean argues that legal fees will come down if barristers' expenses come down is hilarious.

Shake-up at Commonwealth AGs … Siren call of the Afghanistan war crimes investigation … Notetaker’s notes go missing and with it evidence relating an an “improper inducement” … Rekindling memories of the AHRC’s Forgotten Children report … Polly Peck remembers

Latest batch of AAT appointments … Christmas delivery from The Christian … A few lawyers and plenty of the faithful included … A notable deputy president goes missing

Survival of the fittest …Alistair Wyvill cleared … Eight year toxic Top End drama draws to a close … Disciplinary Tribunal squelches NT Supreme Court judge and Stella Maris commissioner … Pro Bono termination … Procedural unfairness … No finding of ulterior strategy … Buffalo Bruce reports