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 

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