Pell v The Queen … Cardinal’s High Court appeal … Written submissions weighed by Alan Zheng … Pell says the jury’s verdict was unreasonable … Factual inconsistencies … Alibi evidence … Parting of the robes … Onus and standard of proof … Crown says the threshold for overturning a jury verdict is high … Limited role for appeal judges 

The whacky world of “Sovereign Citizens” … Conspiracy theorists and God’s chosen few join forces to challenge authority … Principles and precedents defenestrated as the Constitution and the common law get a psychedelic varnish … Judges in the “trustee position” … Alan Zheng investigates   

Human rights … Sex discrimination … Full Feds find a fresh instance of poor quality workmanship at the Circus Court … Judge brings administration of justice into disrepute … Six year delay leads to the wrong reasons … Start again according to law … Ginger Snatch reports 

Fees stoush reaches Vic Appeals … Abolition of the Chorley exception applies to law firms acting for themselves in litigation … Herbert Smith Freehills not entitled to recover costs in dispute over failed float of petrol distributor … Hi-ho Silver … Argument rejected that employed solicitors working for partners should be able to recover fees … Solicitors on the record acting in their own cause … Not even Bret Walker could save the day … Stephen Murray reports  

Theodora and Miss Ginger Snatch put their heads together and recall the highs and lows of 2019 … Lawyers and the law … Reliving the stories that tickled our fancy … Entertaining judges … Law shops in the frame … Silken ones … Courts in the act … Bureau de Spank … And heaps more 

Sir John Kerr’s correspondence in the High Court … Submissions in the Archives case … Commonwealth property or personal property … What is being hidden? … Accessing governor general’s letters about the sacking of the Whitlam government … Bret Walker v Stephen Donaghue … Alan Zheng sifts through the paperwork 

Bad tempered Madge ticked-off in the Queensland District Court … Misunderstanding basic legal requirements on multiple occasions … Fundamental errors … Flawed costs order … Inappropriate behaviour from the bench … Petulant sprays … Sucking eggs … The works … Ginger Snatch reports 

Justice Debra Mortimer goes to town on “certain Federal Circuit Court judges” who make it a “common practice” to deliver written reasons after the appeal time has expired … Canine court “interactions” … Tasmanian briefs lured by the idea that life will be better if the royal trinket is reinstated … Theodora reports