Recent intriguing judgments from the NSW District Court … Copper in sexual relationship with a vulnerable witness … Lismore copper behaving badly … Teenagers and tabloid rag … Peta Leigh is courtside

Hannah Ryan in New York assembles the best and the brightest of the online legal commentariat … Intellectuals, pundits, provocateurs, investigative journalists … A fascinating hive of activity in the law space 

Trust in the legal system … Trust in politicians … Grovel from MPs removes charge of scandalising the Yarraside Court of Appeals … desperate politics … Keeping alive the “blaze of glory” … Home goal by Gorgeous George Brandis 

Rich and colourful parade of judiciary in Mt Hagen … Thousands of cases languish … Remorseless giant LexisNexis swallows another case law analytics business … Statelessness gets a handout … Department of Immigration’s unique interpretation of the Freedom of Information Act … Lawyer’s defamation appeal bites the dust 

St Paul’s College headless … College relents and signs-up for Sydney Uni “cultural review” … Dozy council and warden drop the ball in the face of another brat-frat outrage 

The Northern Territory provides a broken justice system for Indigenous children … Under-funded, under-skilled and a failure of political will … Hannah Wootton looks at evidence given to the NT royal commission on youth detention 

Claim of fabricated documents in costs assessment … Debts that are not true debts … Cost determination affected by jurisdictional error … Barrister’s petition dismissed 

Canberra’s judgments of perfection … Prize giving … God help us … Blood oath … Witnessing stat decs 101