Courts - a province of family violence


Sofronoff stripped bare


Deceit ... Betrayal ... Drumgold hung out to dry as a result of Sofronoff-Albrechtsen information "tryst" ... Latest derailment of conspiracies about the prosecution of manosphere darling, Bruce Lehrmann ... Derangement syndrome ... Sofronoff's "serious corruption" ... Devastation among devoted Banana Benders
Police go fishing


Important case on search warrants ... Police seize the mobile phone of a solicitor ... Investigation into a shooting ... Law Society protocol on search warrants ... Requirement for warrant to specify in detail the information sought ... Give the phone back ... Anthony Kanaan reports
Capital crimes


Dangerous words likely to be scrubbed from the Trump era lexicon ... Musk and his techie vandals ... The shredder going full blast at the FBI ... Stolen national security documents sent back to Mar-a-Lago ... Cabinet clown show ... White supremacy unleashed ... Consumer protection prosecutions dropped ... Lawyers and law firms threatened ... Roger Fitch from Washington
Letter from Rome


Judges on strike over constitutional changes ... Independence of prosecutors at stake ... Too much "reform" ... Berlusconi legacy ... Referendum on the way ... Constitutional court inflames the Meloni regime with decision on boat people ... Insults galore ... Silvana Olivetti reports
Redesigning the camel


Sustained problems at the Circuit and Family Courts ... Handballing cases up and down the food chain ... Rev Christian Porter's unfortunate legacy ... Unwinding the duel kingdoms of Willy Alstergren CJ CJ ... What has happened to "Ginger" McGrath? ... From our Family Affairs Roundsman
Judgment for sale


Melbourne University Publishing's decision to produce Justice Lee's Lehrmann judgment as a commercial product is not without its problems ... The omnishambles continues ... Melbourne lawyer Nilay B. Patel explains