No harm from emotional domestic flare-up … Life in the suburbs … Too much pineapple juice … Queensland Madge hauled over the coals … Miscarriage of justice … Apprehended bias … (No. It’s not Sal Vasta) … Threats to solicitor … New trial … Start again … Michael Baker reports 

As pressure mounts out of the hat jumps draft legislation for a Commonwealth Integrity Commission … Peculiar structure based on flawed reasons … Porter’s politician protection racket … Drinking News Corp’s Kool-Aid … Janek Drevikovsky reports

Taxation and the latest addition to the High & Mighty … Trials and tribulations of tax minimisers … Foreigners in Paris … Mistreatment of multinationals and the “rule of law” … Janek Drevikovsky reports on what Simon says 

High Court appointments … Endorsements and disappointments … What now for the Last Chance Saloon? … Justices Simon Steward and Jacqueline Gleeson … Background to selections … Politics and the process … Where’s the excellence? … Knock on Wood … Beach beached … Associate of judges, Ginger Snatch, reports  COMMENT: URL: Gleeson J has delivered plenty of notable judgments, the most recent being Crowley v Worley Ltd [2020] FCA 1522. COMMENT: The doctor's wife comparison is uncool in 2020, even in a satirical context. Plenty of equally biting but wittier and more contemporary comparisons out there.

New procedures to deal with groping grievances … Outcry at the WA bar over the president’s ham-fisted message on sexual harassment … Female barristers incandescent … CJ drawn into the fracas … History of sex-pest judges in Perth … Shock at Dicey Heydon revelations … Grievance stewards … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

Names on lists … Jonathan Beach, Jayne Jagot and Janine Pritchard … Speculative scribblings … Cabinet contemplations underway … Opinions aplenty from the commentariat … The sound of axes grinding from within the law caper … Appointments imminent  COMMENT: URL: It appears that Michael Pelly and the AFR were pretty much on the money. Let's hope Steward and Gleeson JJ bring forth more justice and less division.

UPDATE … New Yarraside QCs on hold … Plague stifles letters patent … In South Australia, legislation passes to permit new branding … Fluffier status … The great hurtle backwards 

Law Society of NSW lashed by Court of Appeal … Failure to ensure just, quick and cheap litigation … Another jurisdictional calamity … Earlier decision not brought to the attention of NCAT … Requirement for model litigant … Application for suppression order rejected … Janek Drevikovsky reports