Expansion of the Federal Court empire sees Registrar on more pay than the judges … Enlarged title … Massive expansion of budgets, staff and judicial officers under territorial sway of bureaucratic operator par excellence … Personal submission to President of the Remuneration Tribunal 

Family Court CJ on message with the attorney general … Searching for Sarah Fregon’s replacement at Vic’s Bar … Lease of life for Act of Settlement, 1701 … Theodora reports 

One more minus … Support for Bernard Collaery … Attempted throttling at chamber’s drinkies … Judges prefer Blackstone … Dog of a case … Adversarial difficulties in Latin America … Theodora reports 

“Sources close to the Family Court” prepare a fact sheet that shoots holes in “Christian” Porter’s case for abolishing the court … Lies, damn lies and blatant falsities … Family law restructure farcical … Pitch for survival as judges mount the battlements … Here’s the judges’ fact sheet, in full … 

Complaints against the NSW corruption watchdog dismissed … Magistrate made an elementary mistake about exculpatory evidence  … ICAC is not a court, it is part of the executive government … Findings of corruption still stick despite bonkers beat-ups from News Corp hacks … Nick Bonyhady reports 

Law shop bogged in class action fiasco … Communicating with the forbidden fruit … Correspondence that was “apt to mislead” … Punished with indemnity costs … Call for a rehearing with a different judge … Nick Bonyhady reports from the Federal Court 

How the government in 1986 paid Freehills $200,000 towards Justice Lionel Murphy’s costs of two criminal trials … Freehills had undertaken the work for Murphy on a no-charges basis, while leaving open the prospect of seeking a contribution from the government … Freehills advises Murphy not to change lawyers … Counsels’ fees and disbursements … Departmental heads sought to cap the payment … Cabinet agrees to a costs payment of $420,473 … From Stephen Murray at the National Archives 

Former High Court judge has serious surgery … CPA man takes interim helm at LIV … Law librarians throw the book at LexisNexis … Retired ACT judge still producing judgments … Meet the Porters