South Australian bar and CJ at loggerheads on new queenies … Judges opposed to appointment of new QCs … Adoption of the Victorian model … Court likely not to participate in the selection process … Unilateral government appointment of QCs … “Political silks” 

Hello Everyone … Sal Vasta writes to the judges of the FCC … Two Wigs Willy is back … Sal steps down as acting chief judge … Sense of duty and service … Court in a sorry state, but don’t despair … Work ethic of the Full Family Court … “Bombardment” of criticism, some of it gratuitous … Darkest of times … Sal slowing down 

Appointments to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal … System of preferment and patronage … The Christian Porter’s stack is the most audacious in living memory … Merit missing in action … Party hacks come home to roost … Where’s Tubby Callinan’s report? … Janek Drevikovsky goes through the list, name by name 

Senior judges concerned over suggestion that Judge Vasta of the Circuit Court would be promoted to sit in the Family Court … Concerns may have prompted early circulation of appeal judgments all highly critical of Vasta’s judgments … To cap it off, Sal is now a defendant in a Queensland defamation case 

The long-running rude letters case … Calling another solicitor “fundamentally dishonest” … Is this a breach of professional standards? … Has the exquisite finery of the legal profession been sullied? … Judges are having trouble making up their minds … Is the rule against rudeness a threat to free speech? … Everyone hoped Yarraside appeals had the last word … Now a special leave application looms … Janek Drevikovsky follows the long and winding trail 

UPDATE … Porter wants Vasta for the Family Court … Standby as more critical judgments about Sal are in the appeal pipeline … Two-Wigs’ special envoy for case management has trouble managing his own cases … Not only Stradford & Stradford, now there’s Navarro & Navarro … The terrible legacy of Soapy Brandis 

Ghostly apparition of shuffled off chief justice … Federal Court vacancy in Perth … NT’s family friendly ICAC … “The troubles” are over for former Clutz warrior … Election deadline for appointments … Lawyer sacked over boozy partner allegations … Theodora reports 

Lawyers are eating their Brexit … How three UK based global firms are dealing with clients’ Brexit phobia … England quakes while lawyers open the picnic basket … Too much marketing … Too little light … Janek Drevikovsky files from Kathmandu