Up the Street … Bend over … FCFC judge birched (again) by the Federal Court … More interruptions …Taking over the case … Findings that were not made in submissions … Go back start again … Costly and inefficient process … Judicial mentoring goes astray … Max Shanahan reports

NSW government goes softly-softly on anti-corruption … AG from a crooked era nominated for chief commissioner … South Australian magistrate loses conduct appeal … Red wine snifters to raise funds for Queensland legal aid … President of Vic Appeals hangs up his wig with a shot at mandatory sentencing … Theodora reports 

Bollicking for large law shop over “independent” witness report … Drafting assisted by lawyers … Breach of expert witness code of conduct … Law firm knew in advance what the findings would be … Misleading the court … Max Shanahan files 

Deficiencies of heavy-handed anti-terror laws … Police mismanagement and failure to comply … Covert search warrants … Preventative detention orders … Major shake up for continuing detention orders … Citizenship stripping laws get scrambled … Max Shanahan dives into the quagmire  

Dire legal aid conditions bring on strikes by criminal briefs in the Old Dart … Barristers reporting incomes below the minimum wage … Delays in payments … Massive exodus from the profession … Magic Circle firms booming and bloated, while criminal justice practitioners go into debt … Misconduct charges threatened by the LCJ … The decay in legal aid outlined by Max Shanahan 

Bye-Bye Boris … What took you so long … The end of the show for a show pony … The Queen faced with the Lascelles principles … Election not an option … Curious position for the Attorney General … Janek Drevikovsky reports from a chaotic Blighty 

Lawn Order … Governments take on environmentalists … Looking after workers by prosecuting them … Keeping everyone “safe” … Harsh new measures … Unintended consequences … Victoria, Tasmania, NSW, and UK … Max Shanahan reports on the latest crack-downs on protesters 

Mark Dreyfus’ agenda … A process of Demorrisonification … The NIC … Refenenda galore – The Voice, The Republic … Whistleblowing and other freedoms – Collaery, Assange … The quality of tribunal and commission appointments … High Court vacancies … Bureau chief Polly Peck reports from Canberra  COMMENT: "Formally, High Court appointments are made by the prime minister." Er, actually it's the Governor-General in Council (Constitution, s 72(i)).