More silence, less disturbance


Lawn Order ... Governments take on environmentalists ... Looking after workers by prosecuting them ... Keeping everyone "safe" ... Harsh new measures ... Unintended consequences ... Victoria, Tasmania, NSW, and UK ... Max Shanahan reports on the latest crack-downs on protesters
Civil Procedure and the Old Testament


In search of dispute resolution ... What the Bible tells us about negotiation and arbitration ... Eve and the serpent - a failure to negotiate properly ... Catastrophic consequences ... King Solomon and the Commercial Arbitration Act ... Just, quick and cheap ... Eamonn Murphy and Ariana Haghighi escape from a dry tutorial
Street Watch


Federal judge spanked for running the case ... Too much intervention ... Judicial cross-examination ... Rehearing ... Start again ... Also, allowance granted to AAT for "unattributed copying" ... Two-third of a judgment lifted from a party's submissions ... Max Shanahan reports courtside
Labor's law


Mark Dreyfus' agenda ... A process of Demorrisonification ... The NIC ... Refenenda galore - The Voice, The Republic ... Whistleblowing and other freedoms - Collaery, Assange ... The quality of tribunal and commission appointments ... High Court vacancies ... Bureau chief Polly Peck reports from Canberra