NSW government expenditure on lawyers … Production of new legislation slows … Keeping shtum on the Suspect Target Management Plan … AG and bar in barney over criminal trial delays … Lies, damned lies and statistics 

Phone hacking the royals has a long history … Prince Charles’ 1981 calls from Australia back to Lady Di in London were taped by a group of conspirators looking for ways to sideline Malcolm Fraser’s plan for Charles to become GG … From our Royal correspondent Prunella Faux 

Lawyers teetering on the edge … Legal aid commissions and other agencies have been slow to grapple with traumatised lawyers handling child sexual assault cases … The mental wreckage is more widespread that we like to think … Sara Tomevska reports on a workplace war zone 

A foul mouth was no barrier to success … It may well be now … How a lawyer and a law firm misunderstood their duty as employers … Lord Denning’s secretary verbally abused in Sydney … Nick Bonyhady reports on a different sort of new normal 

CEO of Vic Supremes being lured back to the federal courts … Fight on to keep Family Court CEO … Blasphemy expert sits tight at FCC … No money in the till for a better offer

Des Andersen QC’s death brings back memories of the heady days when corruption was off the leash … More new Yarraside silks than usual … Bar election in Qld in the final furlong

Judicial appointments Tasmanian style … Nudge, nudge … Greens’ accusation about favouritism inflames Willy Hodgman … News from The Map

Low level BAS drama for NSW brief … Tax obligations … Psychological reporting … Subeta Vimalarajah at the Bureau de Spank