Those wretched BASs … A barrister drowning in tax, tax and more tax … Drinking … Health issues … General disorganisation … The full nine yards … Peta Leigh reports 

(Apologies to Cole Porter) … Leverhulme assembles the data to try and make sense of Rolf Harris’s criminal trials … Three trials … Guilty of 12 indecent assaults … 5 years, 9 months in pokey … Lengthy jury deliberations … London Calling 

Top appeals judge in Thailand fails anticipated elevation to the country’s number one judicial position … Drug cases and anti-corruption decisions thwarted his career path …  From Alex Mitchell in Bangkok 

Slap on the wrist for Darwin lawyer of “exemplary character” … Guilty plea to cocaine bust … Stellar references … Great sporting ability … Subeta Vimalarajah courtside 

Allens says the NSW Law Society is on firm ground in moving to dump a member of its executive … Demand for procedural fairness … Motion to sack on hold until injunction resolved 

Keeping the profession in good repute by covering-up the names of lawyers in disciplinary proceedings … SA judge goes through the balancing act of deciding what’s best – redaction or open justice … Redaction wins

Prez of the Qld CA explains the history of barristers, their admissions, the role of the court in the functions of the profession … From pleaders, narrators, attorneys, benchers, serjeants-at-law, inns of court … 800 years compressed into a blistering 46 paragraphs … It’s all about an application for costs … Subeta Vimalarajah reporting 

Shopping centre stoush over location of chemist shops … Federal Court judge critical of dodgy plan to weave around the labyrinthine rules that apply to the location of pharmacies … False and misleading information drafted by solicitor … Peta Leigh reports