What protection visa? … Man held in immigration detention by the government after he had been granted a protection visa … Federal Court orders immediate release … Minister for Immigration birched in fulsome judicial rebuke … Ministerial defiance of the law … Disgraceful conduct … Habeas corpus application opposed by the minister on spurious grounds … Zoe Mitchell reports 

Car accident … Plaintiff’s fraudulent case … Farrago of lies … Deceit … Tentative orders for indemnity costs and to refer the plaintiff for criminal investigation … Committing offences while allegedly incapacitated … Priors … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

The “independent” bar goes cap-in-hand to the government … Game’s up … One dissenting voice above the parapet … Trying to prop-up the chambers working model … Turnover of bar staff … NSW Law Society in upheaval as a cabal seeks to change the constitution and sideline dissenting voices … Theodora reports 

Practising law may never be the same again … Powers of the state unlikely to be wound back … Unhappy remote experiences … Costs and time blowouts … Corona appeals … Lockouts … Home on the range … Theodora does the rounds 

Hilary Penfold’s vintage from 2011 … Dry and too much oak … Earlier ACT Court of Appeal birching uncovered … Respondent shot by the coppers … Damages judgment … Overly long and detailed reasons … Riddled with errors … Undermining public confidence in the judiciary … Artemus Jones reprises 

The role political opinions may or may not play in sacking a consultant to a major law shop … Insubordination and being rude about a client … Close connection to expressing a political opinion … Fair Work Act … Acceptable to communicate views to anyone but the media … Martinet … Motivations … Stephen Murray reports 

Hilary term … Another judgment from retired ACT judge Hilary Penfold … Preposterous delay of nearly six years creates more problems for the litigants … Overburdened judgment writing style … Reproduction of vast tracks of submissions … Unclear reasoning … Lavish dinner proposed by Artemus Jones 

Lawyer spankings resume after jurisdictional collapse … NCAT picks-up disciplinary cases where it left off … Helpful legislative amendments to the rescue … Wollongong solicitor ignored missives from the Law Society … Compliance required before trading ticket reissued … Poverty … Despair … Janek Drevikovsky reports