Update: 22 December 2007
Legal Blog Watch's Carolyn Elefant predicts:
'2008 will be a banner year for single-issue blogging, like David Rossmiller's coverage of "everything Richard Scruggs," Above the Law's coverage of Aaron Charney's lawsuit against Sullivan & Cromwell or Durham in Wonderland, covering the Duke lacrosse team rape case.'
Dickie Scruggs, an American lawyer, and others pleaded [...]

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Two blokes shot this well known lawyer's underworld partner Lewis Caine and got put on trial for murder. Representative of a few underworld clients, she refused to give evidence at the two blokes' trials despite having been ordered by the Court to do so. She said she was scared of getting her head blown off. [...]

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K v Legal Services Board [2006] VCAT 2303; K v Legal Services Board No. 2 [2006] VCAT 2362 (Bowman J)
A solicitor lied to a County Court judge about holding a practising certificate and was told in 2001 by the Full Legal Profession Tribunal not to bother applying for a practising certificate until 2011 and only [...]

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Tsigounis v Medical Board of Qld [2006] QCA 295 is a warning of the dangers of self-representation by professionals. A medical student at Monash University took more than 11 years to complete her medical degree 20 years ago. She could not find work in Victoria, and travelled to Townsville to do her internship following a [...]

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As noted by Justice Chernov in Board of Examiners v XY [2006] VSCA 190:

Frugtniet v Board of Examiners (No 2) [2005] VSC 332 (Gillard J)
Frugtniet v. Board of Examiners [2002] VSC 140 (Pagone J)
Fraukes v. Board of Examiners (Unreported, Supreme Court of Victoria, Phillips, J., 8 March 1989)
In the matter of Lisa Bronwyn Mann [...]

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It is an intriguing saga which is recounted in Board of Examiners v XY [2006] VSCA 190, involving the application for admission to practice by a woman with a criminal record and a history of mental illness. According to psychiatrists, by the time of an appeal to the Supreme Court, her mental illness was over. [...]

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In Board of Examiners v XY [2006] VSCA 190, Justice Chernov gave some explanation of the processes for application for admission to practice:

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