Department of Wet Lettuce … Barrister lightly birched for overcharging … Unsettling fee collection methods … Fee refund … And that old hearing aid case resurfaces … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

Stop the presses – the WCC has made a decision … QCs and the crown’s work … Taxi! … Invalid disciplinary cases validated … Public purpose fund raided … Tasmanian judge tongue-lashes Sydney lawyer … Theodora sniffs around the traps 

Yarraside bar ‘n’ grill … The brave and confident few who have withstood the stampede to queens counsel … Difficulty shaking off colonial branding … The petty rush for status … Statistics since 2015 … No hard evidence that QCs do better than SCs … Alan Zheng combs through the data 

Sydney silk says articles in The Australian about ICAC reflect adversely on him … Complaint to Australian Press Council … Incorrect assertions … Failure to check … Bias … Puzzling claims that findings of corrupt conduct have been overturned … “Exoneration” that doesn’t exist … Zealotry 

Government won’t back away from insensitive appointments to the Disability Royal Commission … Stuart Robert and Ron Sackville in charge … Two senior counsel assisting the commission have withdrawn … Undercurrent of unhappiness … Disabled children and education … Stand by … Nathan Twibill reports 

Disability pensioner who applied to be admitted to the Tasmanian jam roll ordered to pay costs … Application for admission withdrawn … Still, the objectors wanted their costs because they were acting in the “public interest” … No evidence about how much work they did … Applicant from out of town 

Judge Street’s findings in favour of Microsoft in an IP case overturned … Blistering appeal judgment from the Federal Court … Judgment in complex case given ex tempore by FCC judge … Speculative inferences … Liability for claims that were not made … The missing pathway … Go back, start again … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

Sandy Street downs the Commonwealth … Health report … Hong Kong knees-up … Eastman disaster ends in damages … Painstaking magisterial appointment … Florid epistle from Rod the God … Bar election policies … AG butts into the Palace Letters stand-off … Winston to schmooze ancient briefs … QC grief in Adelaide … Theodora reports