Human rights are far too flakey for this regime … Captains’ picks undermine the independence of the Human Rights Commission … Global assessment body asks for a proper selection process … Shameful B-status looms … Labor Party changes shoes on the Collaery case … Affront to the rule of law … Lectures burned at UTas law school … Theodora reports 

NSW … March of the state … Regulatory paralysis of the right to protest … Law n’ Order … Roads, bridges, tunnels, smelters, steelworks, ports, coal-fired power stations – all out of bounds … Perrottet and pals take on the activists … Max Shanahan reporting 

Barrister with personality issues … Plying the trade while unticketed … Multiple breaches … Nose thumbed at authority of the court … Criminal contempt … Janek Drevikovsky reports  COMMENT: NSW judges juggling miscreant briefs … Poor, desperate-for-work Rollison gets a suspended jail sentence for trading without one of the guild's licences … The "suck my dick barrister" who harassed an assistant clerk at drunken dinner gets a free pass and his identity suppressed for 20 years … https://justinian.com.au/news/its-christmas-for-sexually-harassing-brief.html Ed. COMMENT: Surely you have not missed the lawyers at war etc in the Stanizzo case?

It has been headline time for Vlad the Impaler … Esteemed employee struck off the jam roll … Atanaskovic Hartnell even wanted to charge the client for tracking his stolen money … Then there was the Elizabeth Kelly case … The bully division … Fear of managing partner’s tendency to “denigrate” and hold “grudges” … Max Shanahan and Henry Chen report

Former judge’s associate wants compensation … Relationship with judge … Claims she was ashamed and humiliated after Supreme Court intervention … Court process likely to be examined by equal opportunity authority … Judges’ discomforted by unfortunate turn of events … From our Tasmanian Affairs desk 

The slow growing variety … Climate litigation … Duty of care … Sharma case … Full Feds reluctant to meddle with minister’s coal mine approval … Assumption that politicians can make “wise policy” … More climate cases in the wings … Torres Strait case … Call for bold politicians and brave judges … Max Shanahan reports  COMMENT: NZSC just gave leave in Smith v Fonterra – https://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases/2022/2022-NZSC-35.pdf

UK Supremos flee Hong Kong’s top appeal court … Judicial independence in the hands of Australian retirees … Catching Collaery … Preposterous post-nominals … AAT gets a top-notch Callinan … Peace breaks out at Vic’s bar … Theodora reports 

Tax turmoil … Computer problems … Avoidance disorder … Chronology of mistimed events … Clinging to the jam roll … Client work prioritised … Distinction between personal and professional competence … Max Shanahan reports