He thought it was romance … She believed it was sexual harassment … Sal Vasta gets to work on law firm principal’s over-wrought advances … $170,000 awarded to female solicitor trapped at Bangalow law shop with predatory pest … The perils of trying to stop smoking … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

Piper Alderman’s kitchen sink drama … Who’s bullying whom? … Injunction preventing meeting to sack property partner discharged … Human rights complaint against law shop still on foot … The workplace and women lawyers … Allegations at 10 paces … Insulting emails … Sex had nothing to do with it   

Morgan Ryan meets his maker … Missing parliamentary silverware a matter of integrity … Croatian Six miscarriage … Greenfields marketing for lawyers … Theodora reports 

The long arm of dishonesty doesn’t catch up with an applicant for the provision of “credit services” … ASIC smells danger but the High Court says spent convictions must be ignored … Hair-raising collection of ancient offences and scrapes … Law admission blocked and struck-off as a migration agent and a tax agent … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

Barrister put off the track … Dodgy tax history … More damning information emerges … Harman undertaking … Bureau de Spank wants to use the new material in future proceedings … Person with cognitive impairment pointed sole director of barrister’s tax avoidance vehicle 

Justice Ian Harrison in the NSW Supremes dismisses apprehended bias application … Facebook posts by judge’s tipstaff … Claim made by family values applicant that HH’s associate supports gay rights … Battle with a noted sexual equality campaigner … Purple pride … Jurisdictional issue … Finding that cases are decided by judges, not their staff 

Polly Peck delves into the salmagundi of law & justice policies on offer by the two major parties … May 18 election … Policies that have been missing in action during the campaign … Rights … Integrity Commissions … Family law reform … Judicial and quasi-judicial appointments … Legal aid … Indigenous Australians … Prosecuting Banks and finance companies … Whistleblower protections … Catching more crims … Take your pick 

Reef coral opinions bleached … Fresh from spankings by the Full Family Court, Judge Vasta rides to the rescue of a sacked professor … Lengthy judgment without citing a single authority or precedent … Sal turns his hand to intellectual freedom … Janek Drevikovsky reports