What if Slater & Gordon had not floated … The downside of going public … Restructuring already underway … Litigation defendants seizing on S&G’s vulnerability 

After 30 years of litigation Wentworth v Rogers lives on … Another round in the country’s longest running courtroom drama … Costs awarded to Katherine Wentworth for 1985 damages action against her former husband 

South Australia – appointing auxiliary judges was the chief justice’s idea … Judicial appointments on the cheap … Bar n’ Grill up in arms … AG looking to merge trial divisions of the Supreme and District courts … Money, money, money 

Death rattle of the Carmody story … Secretly recorded CJ rant back in the news as Sgt Plod called in to investigate senior judge administrator … No need for Justice Byrne to pack his toothbrush 

Because of mounting tax problems solicitor keen to secure business by giving a misleading costs estimate to a client … Unsuccessful in the Land and Environment Court … Nominal damages because the client benefited from the expense of the litigation in subsequently getting ministerial approval for a quarry … No reliance on doubtful estimates of costs … Hannah Ryan catches the action 

McKellar’s Miscellany of Mishaps … Advocates immunity gets a workout in the High Court, while in the VicSupremes lawyers get immunity for not defending an application to wind-up a solvent client … Work done out of court and its affect on the case in court … Kate Lilly is courtside 

Inspector Dave getting into the ganja … Too many inquiries upsetting for the cabinet secretary … Latest on the Sinodinos saga … Piling up the falsehoods 

Arfur (Daley) Sinodinos knows nuffin’ … Exculpatory evidence missing in action … SharriLaw … Liberals tried to wriggle off ICAC’s hook, only to be caught by Keith Mason at the Electoral Commission … Rorts of the Free Enterprise Foundation