Much to lean from a Canadian judge whose work sparkles … Litigants and witnesses mercilessly sprayed in delicious asides … We should have more of it 

Siphoning a miserable $12,000 from a property settlement sees a solicitor prised off the jam roll … Implausible explanation for misappropriation … Emilie Lentz at the Hellfire Club

Trouble with the advocates’ immunity – where does it start and stop? … Do a series of faulty statements of claim attract the immunity? … Full Feds to the rescue … Emilie Lentz reports 

Solicitor back in the game after an impressive history of offending and carelessness with revealing the gory details to the admission authorities … No such luck for a NZ lawyer seeking admission to the NSW bar n’ grill … Compare and contrast 

Action against ICAC … Misfeasance in public office no stranger to Eddie Obeid … Elaborate claims that ICAC fitted-up the Obeid boys … Geoffrey Watson SC waved his finger and interrupted 

Doom … Silver Tray gets the sack and a basket of fruit … The latest victim of a dreadful curse that blights the life of those who cross swords with Justinian 

Tim Carmody passes into the sunset … Not even the hacks at The Bowen Hills Bugle could save him … The folly of an overtly political judicial appointment … Who’s next for CJ? 

QC or not to QC … That is the question before former Yarraside judge Murray Kellam … The findings are unlikely to surprise … Most want to keep the sacred trinket … However, some call for the scrapping of the entire silk system