Law shop bogged in class action fiasco … Communicating with the forbidden fruit … Correspondence that was “apt to mislead” … Punished with indemnity costs … Call for a rehearing with a different judge … Nick Bonyhady reports from the Federal Court 

How the government in 1986 paid Freehills $200,000 towards Justice Lionel Murphy’s costs of two criminal trials … Freehills had undertaken the work for Murphy on a no-charges basis, while leaving open the prospect of seeking a contribution from the government … Freehills advises Murphy not to change lawyers … Counsels’ fees and disbursements … Departmental heads sought to cap the payment … Cabinet agrees to a costs payment of $420,473 … From Stephen Murray at the National Archives 

Former High Court judge has serious surgery … CPA man takes interim helm at LIV … Law librarians throw the book at LexisNexis … Retired ACT judge still producing judgments … Meet the Porters 

Attorney General seeking money from well-lined barristers … Feeder pond for the federal courts … Solicitor whacked with costs after long-winded communications break-down … Bye-bye Bluto … ANU’s online Juris Doctor brought back to life … Goings On with Theodora

Groomed for success … Ticket remains in suspension after failed Full Court appeal … More collateral injuries from the Neill-Fraser case … Notebooks shredded in Slicer contempt scare … Supreme Court judges sit on top of each other

Lawyers who act for themselves have a fee-earner for a client … Breakthrough from the NSW Court of Appeal … Chorley principle extends to barristers … Happily, all brands of lawyers can now charge fees for representing themselves in litigation … Stephen Murray reports courtside 

“Im a solicitor … and you’re a fat c***” … The defence of “alcohol induced blackout” … Plus, a barrister tells a fib to Philip Selth … Plus, the dreadful bank deposit book mix-up 

Busy time at the Bureau de Spank … Barrister’s breach of undertakings … Telling pork pies to the court … Solicitor lets non-lawyer husband have access to her firm’s trust account … Unauthorised withdrawals … Lack of professional candour … Stephen Murray reports from the Hellfire Club