A run of outs for the Queensland Bureau de Spank, but without the soothing balm of costs orders for victorious lawyers. Sir Terence O’Rort thinks it’s about time the regulator stopped making such a hash of things ... more

Lizzy does the research and writes opinions only to have them butchered by insecure superiors ... more

Barry Lane detects in the wind a climate of change towards juries. Traditionalists are joining a gently swelling chorus against retaining the jury system in its current configuration ... more

It seems The Mensch has had a secret life as a book reviewer of literary gems. While Einfeld has pleaded guilty, his “alibi” Angela Liati battles on, alone and unrepresented ... more

Spin attack. Greg Baxter is the former flack for the disgraced asbestos merchant James Hardie. Nowadays he spins for Uncle Rupie at News Limited. He has been giving evidence in the ASIC case against former Hardie directors and execs, where Bret Walker’s masterful cross-examination unstitched the master of the message ... more

Promising advocate Vicki Mole has her first experience of the splendour of advocacy … the triumph of the oral tradition … the power of persuasion. Oh, the thrill of it all ... more

Haughty English commentary about Obama’s victory … A few ancient liberals on the US Supreme Court may think it’s time to shuffle off … LCJ Judge on what the oral advocacy tradition will be like 25 years on … Lord Denning (pic) writes for us on the Sleeping Judge Dodd case ... more

The Bush administration smelled so bad it cured the country of voting Republican. Still, there is the better part of two months left for the incumbent to wreak more damage – and his lawyers are working overtime to achieve just that ... more

The ABC is giving itself over to “lectures” from the fuchsia-haired media mogul. Evan Whitton remembers a few of the indignities foisted upon the world by the rancid old meddler ... more

Grumbling in the ranks sees the emergence of a “reform” agenda for the NSW bar’s AGM later this month. The trouble is, the proposed motions, even if passed, will change nothing ... more

French CJ looking forward to Stuart Littlemore’s appearance … Predatory Pricer runs home with the loot … Supreme Court’s innovative plans for the internet – close it down … No flies on Jeff Shaw … Remembering Justice David Tonge ... more

Humble magistrate tears strips off luminous Sydney lawyer … Court warns celebrity solicitor John Atanaskovic that he’s on “thin ice” with intemperate correspondence to his opponents and to Clutz … Time to take a step back

How times have changed. These days the annual dinner turned on by the Law Society of NSW comes replete with dancing girls, busty wenches and violinists with pink instruments. Another Justinian TV production ... more

At the heart of the sudden change of guard at the Victorian bar lies a struggle over real estate. Barristers Chambers Ltd is endeavouring to shore up its position while members flee to independent rooms ... more

Junior Junior, our baby barrister blogger, struggles to find a way out of depression – psychomotor retardation, to be exact. Fiddling around with add-ons for the computer sort of helped … BarCare’s advice didn’t ... more

Justinian tabulates the new silks in NSW and marvels at the supremacy of the tick ... more

Law firms offer clients the best available cone of silence. It’s expensive, but the service also blocks out sight and smell. It’s even fireproof ... more

It takes submissions from a dope fiend to have Queensland judges wrapping themselves in extra layers of dignity and producing weighty reasoning about delirious abstractions. Sir Terence O’Rort reports ... more