NSW Law Society flat-footed over temporary suspension of solicitor … Allegations of deficiencies, falsification and breaches … Time’s up … Due process versus public safety … Nick Bonyhady reports

Repeated calls for ferocious litigator to “step back” and take a cold shower … History repeats itself … Fervid correspondence … Disproportionate amounts of time and money fighting over piddling matters … Too much ego, too little reason … Being impaled by Vlad the Impaler 

Father of murdered family wants release of a psychologist’s report revealing his relationship with his children and former partner … Channel 7 applies for access … WA Family Court denies permission … At pains to point out that there’s no cover-up, but proposed TV broadcast is not appropriate … Nick Bonyhady reports from courtside  

A jury thought there was evidence that the complainant in the Luke Lazarus rape case was not consenting … Yet the judges couldn’t find a way to accept that … Now we are likely to see some change to NSW’s version of “consent” … Community expectations at odds with the outcome 

Seize the day … Audacious outsider trying to burst onto lawyers’ patch … When is legal work not legal work? … Chicken Treat upset … Unsuccessful attempt to introduce unticketed legal services … Nick Bonyhady reports 

The Law Institute of Victoria faces turmoil and losses … Only 66 percent of practising solicitors are members … The NSW solicitors club is booming with a 90 percent membership rate and a big fat balance sheet 

Solicitor decides not to get in the way of barristers’ stoush over fees … Ancient defamation case still causing angst … Three musketeers of the defamation bar jousting over a “small amount of money” … Equity rescues the common law … Stephen Murray reports 

ALRC in the senate spotlight … Family Court PR machine challenged … Hobart chambers no guns policy … Latest Goings On with Theodora