No more cases for the CJ after the end of this year … Appointing a successor … Proroguing parliament for an unusual reason … Government seeking to takeover senate agenda … Everything perfectly normal 

Ian Neil takes barrister websites to a whole new level of glamour … BarNet takes over authorised Victorian reports … Politicians and commentators warned off the judicial patch … John Nicholson joins Inspector Dave … Context and information missing from Inspector Dave’s Cunneen report  

Claim of mental illness unsuccessful in setting aside disciplinary findings … Barrister rents property to vulnerable client … Conflicts of interest … Late to court … Mental illness does not mean conduct cannot be unsatisfactory … Kate Lilly reports 

The Map of Tasmania … Justice Wood sues over super scheme complexity … Looking for judges … In a wink … New ale honours the Ed. 

More juries, please … NSW barristers seek to shift control of personal injury trials away from judges … Claims that civil trials with juries are cheaper and quicker … More research needed … Campaign underway with luminaries in support … Turning back the clock … For and against 

Melbourne solicitor admits to being in contempt of court for warning client’s family to avoid process server … However, not liable for “disparaging” the court … Transfer of European properties in defiance of Yarraside court orders … Scandalisation … Consideration of contumacious and contumelious conduct 

Parliamentary ICAC committee in a quandary about Cunneen tapes … Lawyers called in … Damien Tudehope’s sorry history of covering-up 

Our Julian and house rules at the Ecuadorian embassy … The Tub goes to town … Brandis’ judicial appointments policy … Cunneen rallies support for the old empire, with help from Planet Janet