Latest chest developments … Long Bay lock-down … Court watch … New judges galore … Bathroom emergencies … Legal aid’s bush crisis … Coronial selection capers … Theodora reports 

18C complaint … Not a good case … Laboured and snitty put-downs from hacks at The Australian … Email warrior takes on the “free speech” brigade … Tribal responses … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

Inconvenient early plea adjournments … Dizzo defends its patch … Judges will switch-off repetitive briefs … Commercial cases rescued by retrospective legislation … Fresh new judges, but the bar wants the court to be reviewed … Walama Court goes wanting

Missing the crucial second step on the apprehended bias test … Recusal application dismissed … Brief thought judge was looking after the other side … The judge found no such thing … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

Vale Clockface Gunson … Heavy duty functions organiser at the SA Bar … ALRC moves to Brisneyland … Game on for family court restructure … Hungry Yarraside silks … Federal Court footnote 

Going beyond the call of duty for the Obeids … Prominent barrister birched by the bar council over conduct during the Obeids’ action against ICAC … Lack of contrition … Tight lipped apology … Operation Jasper and coal exploration corruption 

Kathleen Folbigg … Keli Lane … Tim Anderson … Gordon Wood … Convictions and quashes … Prisoners walk free … Speculations and winning ways … The line that is crossed … Where is the line? … Prosecutorial controversies 

VicAppeals speaks … Solicitor wrote letters to a magistrate while case was on foot … Failure to notify the other side … Professional misconduct … Lengthy career as a lawyer … Clear contravention of professional rules … Lack of insight … Whacked with a wet lettuce leaf … Louise Hall reports