Justice Peter Murphy resigned from the Family Court on Friday … An incendiary farewell speech … Barbed comments about political appointments and courts as the “playthings of governments” … Gutless, unnamed judges rebuked for attacks on the appeal division … Two Wigs Willy and Pascoe “should hang their heads in shame” … The farce of “reform” … Murphy’s speech in full 

NSW pre-election administrative review … Expenditure on new “working models” for courts … Coroners stiffed by stringent funding … Law & Justice Foundation grants program gets politicised … Janek Drevikovsky reporting from the Bear Pit 

The money spigot turned off … Legal Aid comes to the party after Supreme Court temporarily halts the Family Court bomber trial … Available dollars all spent before the massive trial began … Puzzle over transfer of property to accused’s wife … Gabrielle Hunter reports 

South Australian bar and CJ at loggerheads on new queenies … Judges opposed to appointment of new QCs … Adoption of the Victorian model … Court likely not to participate in the selection process … Unilateral government appointment of QCs … “Political silks” 

Hello Everyone … Sal Vasta writes to the judges of the FCC … Two Wigs Willy is back … Sal steps down as acting chief judge … Sense of duty and service … Court in a sorry state, but don’t despair … Work ethic of the Full Family Court … “Bombardment” of criticism, some of it gratuitous … Darkest of times … Sal slowing down 

Appointments to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal … System of preferment and patronage … The Christian Porter’s stack is the most audacious in living memory … Merit missing in action … Party hacks come home to roost … Where’s Tubby Callinan’s report? … Janek Drevikovsky goes through the list, name by name 

Senior judges concerned over suggestion that Judge Vasta of the Circuit Court would be promoted to sit in the Family Court … Concerns may have prompted early circulation of appeal judgments all highly critical of Vasta’s judgments … To cap it off, Sal is now a defendant in a Queensland defamation case 

The long-running rude letters case … Calling another solicitor “fundamentally dishonest” … Is this a breach of professional standards? … Has the exquisite finery of the legal profession been sullied? … Judges are having trouble making up their minds … Is the rule against rudeness a threat to free speech? … Everyone hoped Yarraside appeals had the last word … Now a special leave application looms … Janek Drevikovsky follows the long and winding trail