Turnbull and the poisoned fountain of justice … Doug Meagher and Costigan days remembered … Retired silk pushing for more speed to reduce the road toll … Lawyers and law v the public’s right to know … Fresh gongs … Theodora reports 

Polyamorous relationships and property law … A single love triangle where “couple” means three … With diagrams … Winding up the polycule … Multi-partner relationships the new-new thing … Leave to appeal granted … Max Shanahan reports

Federal judge spanked for running the case … Too much intervention … Judicial cross-examination … Rehearing … Start again … Also, allowance granted to AAT for “unattributed copying” … Two-third of a judgment lifted from a party’s submissions … Max Shanahan reports courtside  

Appointments to the AAT from the Brandis, Porter and Cash eras … 79 party connections identified … Deputy President again shows her political allegiance … Plenty of pork … Another senior member departing … Tabulation

Top tier law shops … Soaring pay packets for law graduates … Salaries hit $100k for fresh recruits … Instagram survey … Pay secrecy and inequality … Social media collects the numbers … Henry Chen has the data

Darwin’s close-knit law and justice patch … Leading Darwin silk complains to the Judicial Commission about the conduct of a NT Supreme Court judge … Finding that it was reasonably open to suspect the judge of being “politically partisan” and bearing malice … Role of chief justice … Fallout from flawed Stella Maris investigation … Buffalo Bruce reports COMMENT: Amazing stuff! Like, who in their right mind would EVER agree to waive the right to procedural fairness? COMMENT: The High Courts Octiber 2021 judgement in Charisteas had some interesting things to say about Judges and how to deal with apprehended bias. It would be interesting to see what they had to say about a Judge ruling on issues relating to his wife.

Authorities back off newspaper ban for Crow Eating prisoners … Madam Cash stars in ABA divine comedy … Court orders law shop to pay the money back … Vic’s new silks required to keep their hands to themselves … Job swap in Phillip Street … Theodora reports 

AAT … Liberal appointment makes a hash of it … Failed to engage with submissions … Misapplication of the law … Start again … Pre-election festival of appointments … 12 years after a compensation claim was filed there’s still no final determination … Obstruction and errors  COMMENT: I think she was invalided – not invalidated – out of the APS. COMMENT: Thanks David. Typos are part of Justinian's house style. But this one is now fixed.