Sentencing Harriet Wran … Media discount … Opportunities for the press to influence custodial outcomes … Justice Ian Harrison’s scrapes with the media … Sentencing parity and the disadvantaged  

How supreme are NSW Supreme Court judges? … Justinian’s judicial productivity calculations … Volume of judgments per judge for the last 31 months … Guess who’s top and who’s bottom 

Human Rights psychosis … Timidity takes over … Where to now for a human rights charter? … Queensland politicians failure to seize the moment … Victoria maybe on the cusp of a new rights scheme  

Important victory for Independent Commission Against Corruption in NSW Court of Appeal – conveniently ignored by anti-ICAC campaigners … Corruption findings against Sydney business identities stay the course … Important underpinnings for ICAC … Fraud … Directors’ duties … Hannah Ryan gets to grips with the judgment  

Credit Suisse boss sues Melbourne University Press over the Godwin Grech chapter in Paddy Manning’s biography of Malcolm Turnbull … Unhappy memories of Malcolm’s earlier attempt at leadership … Love letters from Godwin

Same sex marriage plebiscite far from a sure thing … Brandis’ proposal for compulsory voting hits a constitutional impediment … Parliamentary vote the only way to resolve the issue  

Big changes in Waterstreet World … Helping women barristers hits an ideological wall … Soapy expected to stay on his soapbox 

State politics … Ambitious law and order barrister and MP making waves on the backbench … Frontbench beckons … The story of the missing fee agreement