NSW Law Society swaps sides to support the solicitor it had wanted struck off … NCAT out of line in trust account case … NSW Court of Appeal … Law Society’s original complaint lacked clarity … Max Shanahan reports 

Vic’s bar in ructions over election ticket … NSW bar loses another fine old hand … Bookshelves Brandis – a threat to the rule of law … Alarm on appeal filing fees … KC ordered out of court … Theodora reports 

The ins and outs of cannabis legalisation … Proposals from Greens senator David Shoebridge … Constitutional possibilities … Forget the states … Let the Commonwealth light-up … External affairs … Patents … Referral powers … Max Shanahan takes a puff 

Law Society of NSW … Election watch … Vote for a revamped council … Proxies and pressure … Lack of transparency on expenditures … Consultant babble … Other reforms are more pressing … Theodora reports 

Sweeping constitutional change for the Phillip Street lawyers’ temple … Handing control to the top dogs … Resistance mounts … AGM looms … Patronage possibilities … NZ Law Society loses a president … Cultural review … Theodora files 

Pokie Palaces adopt suppression agenda for contempt crucification of dying man … Whistleblowing about money laundering … Law firm in barbed wire straddle … Whopping sums of money to run the Catholic Church’s “Melbourne Response” … Failure to print … Grief sweeps Vic’s Bar ‘n’ Grill over death of monarch … Theodora’s Notebook 

Slow progress from WA Supremo … Not as speedy as the judge would have liked … Heavy work … Claim of oppression … Rayney defamation decision still on ice … Further complications … The years roll by … Latest from Theodora 

Where’s the sunshine? … Citizens want to see their crooks in the stocks … Coalition demands further constraints on public hearings … The hurdle is already unnecessarily high … What reputational damage? … Max Shanahan reports  COMMENT: The sunshine is in a real court, on real evidence, with some ability to defend yourself. COMMENT: EMAIL: URL: typo in your rendition of s 73(1)