Same tired, old untested stuff in the Kellam report recommending retention of Victoria’s QCs … Claims of economic value, getting rid of “confusion” and preserving independence … Evidence wanting … Creating a choice that isn’t a choice … Miracle cure for deeper ills 

Claim that Sydney solicitor overcharged former HIH executive $700,000 … Byzantine submissions … HH says time to stop the skirmishing and get on with the trial … Kate Lilly reporting 

Leaks, Latham and Levine … NSW parliamentary committee on ICAC gets to work … Transcript released … Putting “free kicks and butterflies” in context … Questions that ICAC need not answer … Frisson on display … Alex Mitchell ringside 

Wrinkles in the Dyson Heydon story … Parsing the emails … A speech lost for all time … Pulling out of the Barwick lecture moments before the story broke … A history of “overlooking” … Amazements aplenty 

Years of to-and-fro between tribunal and appeal court over failure to pay barrister’s fee and other complaints against a NSW solicitor … John Basten takes control and six years after the law society issued a summary reprimand, that decision is upheld … Kate Lilly on the case 

Ideological warrior Dyson Heydon lets his ultra-conservative credentials hang out … Not a good look … The varied quality of “punctilious integrity” … Stainless commissioner stains the Royal Commission 

Victimisation at the NSW ODPP … Why is Silbert’s advice on Cunneen secret? … Police bring their guns to court … Tony Abbott on the role of the courts – the new Joh Bjelke Petersen … Waterstreet with rough fingers 

Timbo’s last judgment as Qld CJ … Contenders for the chief’s job … Ken Hayne’s portrait