Queensland bar council says national equitable briefing policy is potentially “divisive” … BAQ won’t play along with Law Council’s plans to improve the lot of women barristers … Qld. is different, says bar prez, Christopher Hughes … Lofty correspondence 

Dewigging transcript … An uplifting piece of transcript from May 24 is doing the rounds of Vic’s Bar n’ Grill … Justice Kevin Bell gets serious about wigs’ policy … Turning up wearing a wig is an insult to Earl Warren CJ … Briefs grovel and remove their hairpieces … Wig protocol a matter of law … Judge expresses his profound disappointment  

Defamation and sources … Nick Di Girolamo, Sydney lawyer, Liberal party operator and Obeid frontman withdraws from defamation trial against The Sydney Morning Herald … Court of Appeal orders up journalists’ sources in blow against investigative journalism 

Where there’s a will the High Court will find a way … Solicitor has no duty to protect beneficiary against estate-depleting relatives … Hannah Ryan court-side … News from The Map 

Queensland barrister makes grave and baseless allegations online about police officer … Defendant’s conduct improper and unjustified … Copper cleared by coroner … Triviality defence goes down in flames … Seb Tonkin reports 

UPDATE … “Good morning” … Noel Hutley apologies to radio bully … Bar cover-up on leaks concerning private discussions about members … DPP’s woeful performance in the Lynette Daley case … Brandis aims High 

Just as Labor candidates are breaking ranks on asylum policy Burnside launches a new book on offshore detention … Former appeals judge Stephen Charles says Manus and Nauru are “concentration camps” … Madeline Gleeson examines what happens to refugees when they are out of sight, out of mind 

Court orders scandalous allegations against lawyers to be removed from the court file and sealed … Application to restrain plaintiff’s travel overseas made in the mistaken belief that he was about the leave the country … No basis in claim that lawyers acted unprofessionally … Seb Tonkin reports