Gents – time please … Barrister lightly spanked for sending disturbing fee threat to former clients … “See what happens if you don’t pay your bills” … File leverage … Agreement not to complain in exchange for the file … NCAT bares its gums … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

UPDATE … Trick or treat with Judge Sal … Apparently, parties should only to turn up at court if they know the result in advance … Ignoring the Federal Court’s advice on hearing unrepresented protection visa applicants … Another of Salvatore’s decisions remitted to be heard by a fresh judge … “His Honour erred” … Start again AND again 

WA Supremes on bad lawyer mop-up operation … Fibbing solicitor tossed from the jam roll … Breach of undertaking … Fabrications to the Federal Court … Eleventh hour Damascene conversion … Resigned to his fate … Janek Drevikovsky

The aspirationals … Another year … Another dramatic folly touches the list of 2019 applicants for silk in NSW … The list is out and here it is … Surely, Smallbone is smarting at this latest turn of events  

Atanaskovic and his law shop take on their old client Bruce Gordon … Vlad collects most of his fees and in the process is impaled … The flames of Brodie Clarke’s villainy are still brightly burning … Massive judgment prepared, only for the dispute to settle days before it is delivered … Money remained the live issue … Atanaskovic charged the client for investigating his employee’s fraud … Unflattering findings … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

Justice Rares tells the Crown not to bother him with trifles concerning the cost of hearing a case on Norfolk island … Treating the Federal Court as a “small agency” of the Commonwealth … “Interests of justice” … Rant from the bench … Stephen Murray reports 

Money, money, money … Fat fees per day for Sydney silkies … Tom Bathurst’s looming departure … Ka-ching – the governor’s property clean-up … High Court suppression tussle … Theodora reports

The Bill Davidson story … Another chapter in the bankrupt barrister saga … Application to rejoin the jam roll rejected … Failure to come to grips with past “moral” lapses … Inability to manage income and tax … Janek Drevikovsky reporting