The new prime minister’s celebrated missteps and misjudgments … Blunderbuss … Overplaying his Costigan hand … Trauma at Tourang … Goldman Sachs and FAI … Not-so-ancient history 

Federal Circuit Court judge’s failure to observe procedural fairness … Departure from binding authority … Arguments not properly grasped … Failure to read tendered document … Emily Meller reports 

Conduct of colourful Sydney solicitor described by Justice Bergin as “quite disgraceful” … Lawyer’s evidence “unsatisfactory” … Behaviour would cause a reasonable observer to “lose confidence in the integrity of the legal profession” … “Breathtaking” grasp for shares in clients’ company … Kate Lilly on the case 

Costly business … Bill me properly … In and out of time … Just and fair … Better late than never … Clients drag itemised bills out of personal injury law shop … Opaqueness of billing … Precious details in small print … Delay in seeking cost assessments not fatal … Kate Lilly on the case 

When our newest Federal Court judge had her reputation vindicated with a healthy award of damages … Clutz wrestling former partner Chris Dale every step of the way … AFP’s new deputy commissioner for capability 

The Heydon inquiry into trade unions is just one of a number of royal commissions to get into political trouble – including Petrov and the political bribery scandal in Tasmania … Shortcomings with Dyse’s Luddite defence … Why backout from the Barwick lecture if there was no resulting reasonable apprehension of bias? 

Here’s the 2015 list of the NSW bar n’ grill’s applicants for senior counsel … 113 seeking recognition … Only a small contingent of women with their hands up … Here we go, again 

Lingering doubts about the royal commissioner’s state of mind … Commissioner refuses to release all documents … We’re now in cover-up mode