No tax returns for 11 years sees shyster struck off the jam roll … Driving and practising law without licenses … Which is worse? … Underworld connections  

The uproar over the funding of community legal centres … Less money, more work … A constituency of disinterest to Brandis … The ABA says, “let’s get creative” 

Immunity from suit … High Court has another stab at it … Oxford’s Professor of Obligations in the driving seat … More loose threads appear … No finality in sight for the quelling of immunity cases 

Judicial movements … Sofronoff appointment seen as a strong move … Will Timbo send flowers? … Earl Warren calls it a day … Contenders polishing their whiskers 

Great Australian Dissents … Sir Tony Mason launches learned tome … Noble and notable dissenting judgments … Judges who had an eye on the future … Disagreements on High 

Personal injury law shop Brydens having trouble producing an itemised bill of costs … A continuing difficulty … Lost file … Strange interpretation of the Legal Profession Act … Daniel Ahern reports 

Solicitor overcharged whistleblowing client … Cost assessment … Client charged $1.7 million … Breach of duty … Breach of trust account regulations … Nearly eight years on … It’s not over yet … Daniel Ahern is on the case

Family law … Letter writing skills … Unreferenced borrowings in overwrought missive to client’s husband … Writing under instructions … Sohini Mehta reports