UPDATE … No jurisdiction … Lawyer disciplinary actions thrown out by NCAT … Complaints improperly made … Procedural mishaps involving the Legal Services Commissioner, the Law Society and the Bar Association … Mounting costs awarded … Lawyers continue to trade without birchings … Remedial patch-up underway … Alan Zheng reports 

The poor old Administrative Appeals Tribunal has been trashed and stacked with the flotsam and jetsam of the Liberal Party … Cronyism … Peter Dutton’s “Australian values” … The defenestration of the administrative review functions of the Commonwealth … Investigative reporting by Inq laid bare the extent of the political rort 

Rebranding The Map’s briefs … Scrabbling for the royal garter gets underway in Tasmania … Clutching at illusory glitter … Peddling the same old malarkey … Status and money raise their unattractive heads 

Determining the number of real District Court judges … Numbers that never vary depending on who is included or excluded … Counter-terrorism provision that lapsed at sunset because no one was looking … Online application policy – one thing for JPs, another for GIPA requests … Polly Peck savours the vignettes of the NSW AG’s administration 

Queensland bar … Shortcomings fixed by lashings more bar readership … Professional misconduct where barrister persisted with appeal submissions that had no basis in fact … Inexperience … Promises not to practice family law again … Penny dropped late in the process … Out comes the damp lettuce leaf … Ghost of Rose Mary Wood 

Victorian judge agrees to handover the gate key … Easement hijinks at the Vic Supremes … Ingress and egress restored to judge’s South Yarra neighbours … Hilary ploughs ahead with her holiday judgment-writing in Canberra … Latest instructions on wigs and robes … Vasta Watch – a fresh bulletin … Bookshelves Brandis bounces back to town … Theodora reports 

The price of panic … Stress caught a young lawyer unawares … An innocent mistake compounded by forgery … Bad look for the legal business … Tears at work … Depression and drinking … Time in the wilderness for “self-reflection” … Janek Drevikovsky reports from the Bureau de Spank

Important Bills passed by NSW parliament go mouldy on the shelf awaiting proclamation … Modern Slavery Act and Surveillance Devices amendments … Where are they? … Revisions and refinements … Government runs cold and warmish on data breaches … Polly Peck reports from Macquarie Street’s bear pit