Experienced solicitor caught in hearing aid diddle … Professional misconduct … Falsifying workers compensation claim … Concealing prior claim history … Solicitor’s actions driven by professional embarrassment or self-interest … Reporter Luan Whitworth at NCAT 

PI law shop’s repeated failure to produce itemised bills … The fine print is too fine … Over briefing senior counsel … Strange ruling from Legal Services Commissioner on junior counsel’s fees … Madeline White follows the action 

Law Society of NSW … Junior VP voted off the executive … Desperate fight from marginal Catholic and evangelical lawyers to preserve marriage inequality … Where to now with threats of an EGM and “legal action” against the law society? … Civil and political rights in contention 

Crown appeals acquittal in sexual assault case … Intoxication … Consent … NSW Court of Criminal Appeal … Sophie Taylor courtside 

The councils of the Law Society and the NSW Bar are caught up in a backlash from a vocal fringe that wants them to abandon their support for same-sex marriage … The usual suspects … Where do these self-appointed guardians of virtue get off? 

The new minister for Home Affairs will have wide discretionary powers over peoples’ lives … Unfortunately, the job is being handed to a seriously unsuitable person … Peta Leigh examines Peter Dutton’s sweeping functions under the proposed ministerial arrangements 

Special chair for light duties in chambers … Lawyer ordered to pay indemnity costs in sewerage bill standoff … Austlii’s redesign … The senate considers whether courts have the wrong idea about contempt … When legislation is received from Mother England what meaning can parliament intend? … Goings On with Theodora 

Federal courts update … Public Sector Union complains to the Public Service Commissioner about hiring processes at the federal courts … Lack of important detail at senate estimates … Tears at the courts’ Canberra support office