Federal Court judge throws down the gauntlet … Solicitors told to keep off the bar’s patch … Too many solicitors spoiling the broth … Barristers are more efficient and cheaper! … The client’s “best interests” 

Kafkaesque passport scenario … New “effective and efficient procedures” … Stuck in immigration detention while seeking to be removed to Pakistan … Nauru or PNG would be better than Villawood … Shades of Al-Kateb … From Sohini Mehta

Former solicitor general has city gaff on the market … Allan Myers up close … Drowsy procrastination out west … Wooden hammers for British judges … Tamil Watch 

No tax returns for 11 years sees shyster struck off the jam roll … Driving and practising law without licenses … Which is worse? … Underworld connections  

The uproar over the funding of community legal centres … Less money, more work … A constituency of disinterest to Brandis … The ABA says, “let’s get creative” 

Immunity from suit … High Court has another stab at it … Oxford’s Professor of Obligations in the driving seat … More loose threads appear … No finality in sight for the quelling of immunity cases 

Judicial movements … Sofronoff appointment seen as a strong move … Will Timbo send flowers? … Earl Warren calls it a day … Contenders polishing their whiskers 

Great Australian Dissents … Sir Tony Mason launches learned tome … Noble and notable dissenting judgments … Judges who had an eye on the future … Disagreements on High