A city in semi-lockdown grieves for big swinging solicitor … Costs battle against former client goes down the gurgler … Conflict of interest … Work under retainer adverse to clients interests … Unsanitisable activities … Solicitors expected to honour their word … Janek Drevikovsky reports  

Striking off … Francis Burt alumnus sent packing … Murder and defamation trials followed by disciplinary proceedings … A gruelling 13-year grind through the courts … The final lap uncontested … Wife illegally recorded … No legal professional privilege … Telling pork pies to the court … Janek Drevikovsky explains  

Cluster news … Government panel firms – who got what … CJ v AG – further Torrenside tensions … Entrapping hookers … New broom at the Federal Court … Court’s own breach of the Migration Act … Pre-virus hand-washing advice from Hobart … Fresh entry in Hamill J’s catalogue of catchwords and citations … Theodora reports 

Torts … Justice Ian Harrison throws out intimidating solicitor’s malicious prosecution case and awards damages to former client … Client sexually assaulted by her lawyer … Who to believe … Poisonous relationships … Unstructured and discursive submissions … Barrister at sea … Alan Zheng on the case 

The law of torts … Damages awarded for assault, battery and false imprisonment in a Sydney brothel … Judicial trigger warning for sensitive readers … Blacklisting … Fellatio … Nudity … Expletives … Kicking … The works … Janek Drevikovsky reports on a fracas 

The new COVID-19 tracker is under the auspices of Minister Stuart Robert … What could go wrong? … Problems with the proposed app … Prying police forbidden … How it works … Hacking is inevitable … A decentralised model would be less of a threat to privacy … Centralised server would be a vehicle for mass surveillance … The key issues clarified by Janek Drevikovsky 

Yarraside brief fights over solicitor’s bill … Failure to abide by court direction … Judicial review of costs order … Too much delay … The cruel clock … Health issues … Personal difficulties … General drama … Alan Zheng reports

No mad rush for de-rolling former AGS lawyer who diddled a trust fund … Offence in 2009 … Caught in 2014 … Pleaded guilty in 2016 … Out of the nick by 2018 … Struck off in 2020 … Wife “horrified” by husband’s offending … Janek Drevikovsky reports