Scoop … Another year and the NSW bar throws up a large quantity of contestants for a new round of the Silk Games … Full list invites inspection … Favourite names reappear 

Coroners falling behind … Long queue for inquests … Coroners under-resourced … New legislation secretly prepared even before the report of the statutory review is publicly available … Full-blooded reforms thwarted … Updated information to hand 

Unticketed criminal barrister gets low-end fine for breaching undertakings about tax payments … Misleading the Bar Council amounts to professional misdonduct … A steep fine would put family home in  jeopardy … Nick Bonyhady reports from NCAT 

Expansion of the Federal Court empire sees Registrar on more pay than the judges … Enlarged title … Massive expansion of budgets, staff and judicial officers under territorial sway of bureaucratic operator par excellence … Personal submission to President of the Remuneration Tribunal 

Family Court CJ on message with the attorney general … Searching for Sarah Fregon’s replacement at Vic’s Bar … Lease of life for Act of Settlement, 1701 … Theodora reports 

One more minus … Support for Bernard Collaery … Attempted throttling at chamber’s drinkies … Judges prefer Blackstone … Dog of a case … Adversarial difficulties in Latin America … Theodora reports 

“Sources close to the Family Court” prepare a fact sheet that shoots holes in “Christian” Porter’s case for abolishing the court … Lies, damn lies and blatant falsities … Family law restructure farcical … Pitch for survival as judges mount the battlements … Here’s the judges’ fact sheet, in full … 

Complaints against the NSW corruption watchdog dismissed … Magistrate made an elementary mistake about exculpatory evidence  … ICAC is not a court, it is part of the executive government … Findings of corruption still stick despite bonkers beat-ups from News Corp hacks … Nick Bonyhady reports