Federal Courts’ staff mulling the latest enterprise offer … Management on a road show trying to sell the proposal with a mixture of lures and threats … Disruption accompanies work-to-rule … Northly winds … Waiting for pay day

Yarraside barristers go broke … Insouciant non-compliance … Tax man on the case … Run-ins with the stipes … Sequestration 

From Hornsby to Blacktown solicitors have been hauled in for birching by the disciplinary stipes … Forging a fee agreement and filching money for a trial that did not proceed … When a solicitor thought he could charge a commission before asking an estate’s beneficiaries … Fame & Character … Misery & Woe 

Prosecution hides evidence … The Map – where the Old Mates Club runs the island kingdom … Tina Huang and Charles Waterstreet … Weinsteins Downunder … When a personal relationship with a judge might create apprehension … Theodora reports 

Defamation … Shock verdict for plaintiff in Gayle v Fairfax … Justice Lucy McCallum reverses herself on “reasonableness” … Defendants say the trial was conducted unfairly … All rise – journalists told they have no priority for courtroom seats … School children being ushered by the “Rule of Law Institute” have rights too 

Rude barrister rapped on knuckles by appeal judges in tennis tripping case … Kew Golf Club wanted Melbourne barristers removed from a tree accident case because they might have to give evidence 

Money lent to son by parents gives rise to a legal relationship … Court orders nearly $300,000 be returned to parents who kept forking out to their offspring … No need for ledgers … Peta Leigh on the case 

Law graduate dismissed by firm … Fair Work Commission finds that unpaid PLT does not count towards a “minimum employment period” … No unfair dismissal protections for intern who morphed into an employee … Peta Leigh examines the traps for young players