Perram J in top form … Cooking on the Central Coast … Employment law … Missing wages … Exemplary amateur conduct called into question … Assistance from a non-practitioner … Unhelpful … Beastly threats … Small case, big fry … Remarks sent to the Law Society … Janek Drevikovsky reports

Law shop disquiet over pay and leave during the plague … Other shops pressing galley slaves for an early return to work … Homework not up to scratch … On tap for pressing matters … Street assemblies in court … Revisiting 1970s student radicalism … The Chestnut reappears … Theodora reports 

Newsroom numbness … The Australian takes a misguided swipe at counsel assisting … Twitter trawl … Humour calamity … Payback for contempt threat against loose-cannon hack … Lord Eldon saddles-up for fresh student fight … Famous Brisbane brief in fresh robes … Theodora reports 

Bristow v Adams likely to see costs application against plaintiff’s solicitor … Litigation that should never have commenced … Backyarder to end all backyarders … Horror case … Defamatorium COMMENT: EMAIL: URL:

Latest spying update … Legislation for International Production Orders … Spooks picking through your data held on foreign servers … Bad news for public interest and human rights organisations, not to mention reptiles of the media and their sources … Coalition cronies on the AAT can sign off IPOs … Janek Drevikovsky reports on the wider scope for Washington’s regime of global spying 

Vic Appeals says that “infelicitous” remarks from the trial judge were not unfair … Trial judge is “not trying to be unhelpful”, yet undermines defence counsel … Murder case where the jury sees the judge poo-poo the defence … Failure to be circumspect … Summing-up miscarries the entire show … Court orders another round … Ginger Snatch reports 

The month of May brings out the best of the bench … Shifty agency running the NDIS scheme … Breakthrough … The Full Feds say that a sex worker/therapist should be funded for a woman with a serious disability … In NSW the CA makes adoption orders affecting a young Aboriginal woman … Justice Leeming writes to her directly … From judges’ associate, Ginger Snatch 

What has been the fate of open justice during a time of closed courts? … Remote access for reporters … Technical issues … Costumes and clothes … Freezing video links … Wrong names … Twiddling of thumbs … Smooth operators at the Fed … Nail bars, beauty salons and courts slowly open their doors, yet e-justice is here to stay … Janek Drevikovsky explores