Virgin Australia should have allowed “Willow” to fly … Numerous appellable errors in disability discrimination case … Full Feds to the rescue … Primary judge should have paused for “reflection” … Kate Lilly reports 

UPDATE … Increasingly rancid accusations in NSW bar election … Utterly extraordinary campaign … Inaccurate claims … Latest muck from Phillip Street  

NSW bar election bumf flies thick and fast … Bruce McClintock claims Neutral ticket is breathtakingly hypocritical … Michelle Painter slaps down knitting club critic … Paul Menzies wants the return of civil juries … Jeffrey Phillips insists his ticket is not right wing … What to believe? 

Barrister does a bit of work without a ticket … Forgets just how many jobs were involved … Tells pork pies to the bar council … Disgraceful … Judge claims that practising certificates “protect the public” … Law graduate strikes Top End admission problem as a result of a copy and paste approach to assignments … Unintentional plagiarising … Forgets to be full and frank … Kate Lilly reports

NSW bar elections loom and Margaret Cunneen is out of the blocks early with a campaigning missive … Letter to members attacking bar leaders … Unheard of politicking … Council disfunction … Vote for ME, I share your distress  

Queensland on high alert as human rights bandwagon starts to roll … Eight year review of Vic’s Charter of Rights calls for more teeth, less gum

Discipline & Bondage … From Queensland to NSW, appeal judges have been scratching their noggins trying to work out what’s fit and proper … The extent to which past misconduct affects current properness … A practitioner who, as a teenager, accessed child porn is F&P, while a solicitor who helps himself to a temporary loan from his clients’ pool of cash, is not … Emily Meller and Kate Lilly reporting  COMMENT: EMAIL: URL: The well-loved phrase, "Only in America" can now be appropriately amended to, "Only in Queensland …"

Advocates immunity up for review in the High Court … Justice John Byrne challenges his mother’s $17 million estate … Carol Cunneen has her say about sister Margaret