South Australian briefs opt for royal plumage … Fail, pass, fail, appeal, sue … The Herbert Smith Freehills candidate’s unhappy time qualifying for a right of audience in the higher courts of the UK … Latest word from Bridie … Qld solicitor general turns people green … Jobs galore … Bottom pinching assault sorted … Theodora reports 

Pseudonym order granted to prominent lawyer and pillar of society accused of jilting his extra mural lover … Salacious claims … Embarrassment … Trespass to the body … Battery … Nervous shock … Jane Doe v XYZ in the Vic Supremes … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

Hateful business … Post-Christchurch … Post-Colombo … Australia starved of nationwide information and data about the extent of hate crimes … Lack of a strategic approach by law enforcement, even as abuse of minorities is rising … USA and UK comparisons … Janek Drevikovsky gets to grips with the problem of assembling a national database of hatred, harassment and threats 

Costs for impecunious Don Dale prisoners … Use of tear gas to quell rioting youngsters … NT appeal judges reverse themselves on awarding costs against impecunious litigants and, in the process, preempt a High Court appeal from the territory on the very same topic … Top End law ‘n’ order … Buffalo Bruce reports 

Great speech at the Free Willy show … Judicial appointment in the mail … Temple of Federal Justice on hold … ALRC family law recommendations and their political implications … A letter from Perth 

You are the lawyer … Sydney property drama … Solicitor who didn’t realise party to the sale of a property was also his client … Duty of care was owed … Retainer … NSW Court of Appeal lays down the law on requirement for lawyers to “step outside” a matrimonial dispute … Gabrielle Hunter reports 

Government’s rushed web-cleansing operation … Failure to consult, the exception being News Corp … Massive penalties for online “providers” of abhorrent material … Vague and unsatisfactory law … Moses issues tablets … Powerless to stop terrorist atrocities but trying to stop people looking at them … Janek Drevikovsky looks closely at the latest in the anti-terror arsenal   

Judgments along the Molonglo move at a trickle … Retired ACT Supreme Court judge still sitting on six reserved judgments … Some decisions reserved four-five years ago … A two-year-old case gets a rapid fire burst of decision-making … The backlog should be cleared in a couple more years … Artemus Jones reports