Judge on trial … Federal Court proceedings against Salvatore Vasta … Poor judicial conduct runs in the blood … Ancient cases examined during trial of the FCFC judge for abuse of process … Max Shanahan reports on the hearing 

Buckley gets a chance … Law Society required to cough-up more documents in disciplinary case … Extra material would not be too much of a distraction for NCAT … Challenge to public health orders by anti-vaxxers thrown out by NSW judges … Arguments “blunt and unnuanced” … Crowdfunded litigation and a lawyer’s fiduciary duties … Alan Zheng reports

Employment lawyer loses latest round in employment case … Lengthy struggle … Nor much resolved … No deceit by Norton Rose … Self-serving puffery … Big law firm not deceitful … Max Shanahan reports 

Gender quotas … Solicitors elect NSW Law Society Council with an 82% female majority … Retired judge wants more litigation to bring the ABC to heel … Questionable evidence to parliamentary committee on litigation funding … Premier has confidence in conflicted AG after no confidence motion … Time stretched allows for extra careful detailed review of evidence in a copyright case … Theodora reports 

Untitled … Former executive director of the bar dies … Babette Smith played a leading role in soothing heated temperaments … Huge drama over nude painting removed from the bar common room … Boarding school politics … Furious letters … Name calling … Unsettling events … TV documentary … Theodora reports COMMENT: My comment that the lady in the painting was not masturbating was not based on the fact that "no-one had seen her hand move" (as the article suggests). It was on 2 bases – first (and principally) that her hand was well short of her pubic area and secondly that it was on top of her panties so that, if it had reached her pubic area, it would have been frottage not masturbation.
David Bennett

Practising ticket suspended … Manager appointed … Anonymised solicitor unsuccessful in stay application … Client told incorrect figure for accident payout … A difference of $130,000 … Allegedly false invoices for disbursement funding … Alan Zheng reports 

NSW Supreme Court says prosecutor engaged in “vile” behaviour … Persecution of step-mother … False accusation of murder … Unreliable evidence … Discreditable conduct by a lawyer … Max Shanahan reports 

Rockhampton solicitor goes down … Drunken offering of a “lazy quid” to the constables … Corruption … Adornment to the legal caper … Offer of cash not seen as a joke … A real charmer … Foul mouthed bikie lawyer sentenced to the clink … Alan Zheng reports