UPDATE … Solicitor ordered to pay court costs personally, within in 60 days … It took over three years for him to fork-up … Unacceptable delays … Far-fetched excuses and extensions of time … Finding of professional misconduct … Disgraceful … Other unattractive priors 

HWL Ebsworth lawyer told not to bite the hand that feeds the firm … The turbulent Dr Rumble’s criticism of his client … Bad for business … Grounds for termination … Managing partner Martinez intolerant of insubordination … Christmas party snub … No presents … Stephen Murray reports

High Court puts the lid on the honey pot … Common law revised … Solicitors and barristers no longer able to charge costs when acting for themselves … Same principle applies for litigants in person … Chorley exception was a “privilege” and an affront to equality before the law … Stinging Nettle … Stephen Murray reports 

Yarraside spankings … The wrong disciplinary body has been doling out punishment to bad lawyers … Hundred of cases that were legal nullities have to be rescued by retrospective legislation … For four years one paid attention to the defect … Charter of Rights sent packing … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

Where’s our Magnitsky Act? … An effective way of dealing with corrupt individuals who violate human rights … Lapsed Bill in the Commonwealth parliament … Giving human rights an effective weapon … The legacy of Russia’s abuse of power and the calculated killing of state enemies … Greg Hogan reviews the NSW Law Society forum on the shape of a local Magnitsky law 

Gents – time please … Barrister lightly spanked for sending disturbing fee threat to former clients … “See what happens if you don’t pay your bills” … File leverage … Agreement not to complain in exchange for the file … NCAT bares its gums … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

UPDATE … Trick or treat with Judge Sal … Apparently, parties should only to turn up at court if they know the result in advance … Ignoring the Federal Court’s advice on hearing unrepresented protection visa applicants … Another of Salvatore’s decisions remitted to be heard by a fresh judge … “His Honour erred” … Start again AND again 

WA Supremes on bad lawyer mop-up operation … Fibbing solicitor tossed from the jam roll … Breach of undertaking … Fabrications to the Federal Court … Eleventh hour Damascene conversion … Resigned to his fate … Janek Drevikovsky