The Fifth Court
By Peter Leonard BL Mark Tottenham BL
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Ireland's legal podcast, presented by the Law Society Award Winning team of Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BL
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E147 The Fifth Court - John O’Donnell SC on Law, Literature and Life
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May 08, 2026 |
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E146 The Fifth Court - Your Reputation on Trial — And Why the Rules Are Changing - John Kerr
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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E145 The Fifth Court - Verona Murphy - From leaving home at 14 to Ceann Comhairle, Dáil Éireann
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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E144 The Fifth Court - Mr Justice Brian Cregan, Judge of the High Court | Parnell, leadership, and the law
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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E143 The Fifth Court - Máirín de Búrca, once more in front of the courts
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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E142 The Fifth Court - Garry O'Gorman, The Barrister Who Quit Law To Handicap Racehorses
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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E141 The Fifth Court - Mr Justice David Nolan - Advocacy, Independence and the Modern Bar
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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E140 The Fifth Court - Eavanna FitzGerald - Founder of The Expert Witness Site
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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E139 The Fifth Court - Tom Flynn SC, Planning judicial reviews, costs caps and access to justice
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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E138 The Fifth Court - Mary McAleese, former Uachtarán na hÉireann
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Episode 137 – Darragh Mackin, Human Rights, Legacy and the Rule of Law
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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E136 The Fifth Court - PART II- Síofra O’Leary, former President of the European Court of Human Rights & Úna Ní Raifeartaigh, judge at the European Court of Human Rights
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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E135 The Fifth Court - Síofra O’Leary, former President of the European Court of Human Rights & Úna Ní Raifeartaigh, judge at the European Court of Human Rights
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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E134 The Fifth Court - Austria’s Supreme Court President Georg Kodek - Why the Law Can’t Save the Planet
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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E133 The Fifth Court - Josepha Madigan — solicitor, former cabinet minister, family-law mediator — why mediation is gaining ground,
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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E132 The Fifth Court - Dame Siobhán Keegan, Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, evaluating expert evidence in an age of AI
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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E131 The Fifth Court - Kirk Offel, Mission-critical infrastructure expert; US Navy vet turned AI-ready datacentre CEO
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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E130 The Fifth Court - Ukrainian Anna Mysyshyn, a leading expert in AI ethics, regulation, cybersecurity
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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E129 The Fifth Court - Elizabeth Winkler - was Shakespeare sole author of all 'his' works? Plenty of legals around this one.
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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E128 The Fifth Court - The Boundary Commission - 100 years ago. Dr. Cormac Moore, author 'The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission'
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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E127 The Fifth Court - Matthew Holmes, author 'Habeas Corpus: Practice and Procedure
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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E126 The Fifth Court - Catastrophe: Nakba II with author Fintan Drury (Legal & Human Rights Special)
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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E125 The Fifth Court - John Brennan, former CIA head at The Centre for Justice and Law Reform Summer School 2025
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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E124 The Fifth Court - Alice Doyle, Circuit Court Judge (ret.) - Justice V Vengeance, reflections on the difficulty in sentencing
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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E123 The Fifth Court - Mark O'Connell, author 'A Thread of Violence', on the Malcolm McArthur case - from the Kilkenny Law Festival
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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E122 The Fifth Court - Frank McNally, Irish Times - a Bloomsday (Legal) Special
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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E121 The Fifth Court - Ms Justice Marguerite Bolger, life and times of a High Court judge
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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E120 The Fifth Court - Dr. Ciara Smyth, Human Rights, Migration and Asylum Law expert, recorded at University College Galway
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May 28, 2025 |
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E119 The Fifth Court - Diarmuid J. Connolly BL (now quite the 'Father of the Mayo Bar' ) - recorded at the University of Galway
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May 21, 2025 |
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E118 The Fifth Court - Judge Mary Fahy (retd.) - Live from Galway thanks to GSBA
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May 14, 2025 |
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E117 The Fifth Court - Paul Keane, Reddy Charlton LLP, former Honorary Consul General of Sweden (and Beekeeper!)
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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E116 The Fifth Court - Edmond Honohan, 'former' Master of the High Court
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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E115 The Fifth Court - from the University of Limerick, former Chief Justice, Frank Clarke, SC. Part II.
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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E114 The Fifth Court - Former Chief Justice Frank Clarke SC - Part I.
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #12
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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E113 The Fifth Court - Dr Susan Leahy, University of Limerick, on consent.
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #11
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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E112 The Fifth Court - from the University of Limerick, Prof. Jennifer Schweppe, Co-Director, European Centre for the Study of Hate
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #10
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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E111 The Fifth Court - Patrick Costello
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #9
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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E110 The Fifth Court - Brendan Slattery, Head of Environment and Planning, McCann FitzGerald solrs.
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #8
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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E109 The Fifth Court - retired High Court judge, Bernard Barton
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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E108 The Fifth Court - Ass. Prof. Dr. Thomas Mohr (UCD) on Hugh Kennedy, former AG and law reformer
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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E107 The Fifth Court - The Law Reform Commission, Siobhán Ní Chúlacháin, Director of Research & Caoilin Young, Legal Researcher
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #7
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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E106 The Fifth Court - LIVE from the Law Society, Part 2 - Legal Big Bang?, Rachel Stanton, Simmons & Simmons and James Duggan, Flynn O'Driscoll
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #6
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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E105 The Fifth Court - LIVE from the Law Society, Part I - Legal Big Bang?, Rachel Stanton, Simmons & Simmons and James Duggan, Flynn O'Driscoll
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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E104 The Fifth Court - Griffith & Griffith, the sequel. (Follow on from E57) Cyril Griffith Junior talks about what happened next
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #5
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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E103 The Fifth Court - Lucy Letby Case and the role of 'expert witnesses'
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #4
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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E102 The Fifth Court - Louise O'Donnell, Deputy Chair, The Labour Court
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #3
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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E101 The Fifth Court - Former Mr. Justice Peter Kelly, life and times, Part II
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #2
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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E100 The Fifth Court - Former Mr. Justice Peter Kelly, life and times, Part I
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #1
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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E99 The Fifth Court - Mick Clifford, author of 'Who Killed Una Lynskey', a complex and unsolved murder from the 1970s
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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E98 The Fifth Court - Nelofer Pazira, recently completed work on final book of her late husband, journalist, Robert Fisk
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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E97 The Fifth Court - Michael O'Farrell, journalist, on the epic hunt to Michael Lynn to justice
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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E96 The Fifth Court - Judge Grainne Malone talks about the new Irish Court Services podcast commemorating 100 years of the Irish courts.ars
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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E95 The Fifth Court at the Kilkenomics Festival - Money-laundering, White Collar Crime - Marla Dukharan and Bill Black
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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E94 The Fifth Court at the Ploughing Championships - 'agricultural solicitor' Aisling Meehan
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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E93 The Fifth Court - Pascal Pichonnaz, ELI President and Professor at University of Fribourg,
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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E92 The Fifth Court - Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice in England and Wales
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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E91 The Fifth Court -Arthur Mathews, author, Walled In By Hate: Kevin O’Higgins, (Minister for Justice, 1922-1927)
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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E90 The Fifth Court - Sisterly, co-founded by Jenny O'Connell, well-known SC turned entrepreneur. Life after the bar.
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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E89 The Fifth Court - Colm O'Reilly - COO Business Post Group, Chairman Newsbrands Ireland, Board member Press Council of Ireland
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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E88 The Fifth Court - Expert Witnesses gone bad - Mark Tottenham BL, an expert on expert witnesses talks expert witnesses
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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E87 The Fifth Court - Mediation v Litigation - The Peter Leonard interview
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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E86 The Fifth Court - Probate Made Simple, Isabella Hughes, co-founder simpleprobate.ie
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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E85 The Fifth Court - Ercus Stewart SC, a barrister since 1970 and a Law Library legend
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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E84 The Fifth Court - How to fix a dysfunctional housing market - Martin Cooney, solicitor to developers
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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E83 The Fifth Court - Big Problems with Enduring Powers of Attorney (EPA) - David Byrnes BL and solicitor Flor McCarthy, Founder Director of Solicitors Growth
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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E82 The Fifth Court - Kevin O'Higgins, solicitor and scion of one of the country's best known legal families
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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E81 The Fifth Court - Arko Ganguli - co-founder Legitify, simplifying cross-border transactions, digitalizing notarization
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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E80 The Fifth Court - Dr Leif-Nissen Lundbæk, FORBES 30 Under30 Listmaker - legal AI in action
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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E79 The Fifth Court - Mema Byrne BL - Landlord and Tenant Law (Commercial Sector) expert author
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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E78 The Fifth Court - The Bloomsday Episode - Hosts Mark Tottenham BL and Peter Leonard BL on Ulysses and the obscenity laws
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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E77 The Fifth Court - Krystian Boino, trained Polish judge who runs his solicitor's practice in Ireland
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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E76 The Fifth Court - Senator Barry Ward BL on the powers of local authorities and elected councillors
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May 28, 2024 |
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E75 The Fifth Court - Joe Brolly, life, times and law.
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May 21, 2024 |
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E74 The Fifth Court - Cynthia Ní Mhurchú BL - Europe, Eurovision and legal life after RTE
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May 14, 2024 |
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E73 - Pt. 2 'A Century of Irish Courts' - Mr. Justice Gerard Hogan, Supreme Court & Prof. Diarmaid Ferriter, UCD
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May 06, 2024 |
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E72 - Pt. 1 'A Century of Irish Courts' - Mr. Justice Gerard Hogan, Supreme Court & Prof. Diarmaid Ferriter, UCD
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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E71 The Fifth Court - DSBA 'Legal Podcast of the Year' - Dr. Charles Garavan, UCD Business - The 'Apple Case'.
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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E70 The Fifth Court, Des Geraghty, former SIPTU President and MEP, on the Sinn Fein Funds cases of the 1940s.
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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E69 The Fifth Court - Liam Herrick, Exec. Director ICCL on Hate Speech legislation plus his work as adviser to Uachtarán na hÉireann (very, very interesting)
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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E68 The Fifth Court - Paul Egan, Partner Mason Hayes & Curran, discusses some of the best known corporate law cases
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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E67 The Fifth Court - Michael Daly, BL, author
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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E66 The Fifth Court - Retired District Justice Olann Kelleher talks to hosts Peter Leonard and Mark Tottenham about Cork, Cocaine and Criminals
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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E65 The Fifth Court - 'Irish Prisons at 107% capacity', '9/10 employers happy to employ ex-prisoners' - Saoirse Brady, Irish Penal Reform Trust
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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E64 The Fifth Court - The Legal Final Frontier? Outer Space Law. Zeldine O’Brien BL
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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E63 The Fifth Court - two top academics discuss two upcoming referendums - Deirdre McGowan, TUD and Maebh Harding, UCD
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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E62 The Fifth Court - Northern Ireland Troubles Legacy Act. Solicitor Darragh Mackin, "You wouldn't see the likes of it in Russia"
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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E61 The Fifth Court, Helen Dixon, 'Billions of Euro of fines not yet collected', outgoing Data Protection Commissioner
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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E60 The Fifth Court - Ian Drennan, Chief Executive Officer, Corporate Enforcement Authority
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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E59 The Fifth Court - The Future of Legal Practice Summit, Part II, The Law Society of Ireland, Sonia McEntee & David Peters
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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E58 The Fifth Court - The Future of Legal Practice Summit, Part I, The Law Society of Ireland, Sonia McEntee & David Peters
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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E57 The Fifth Court - The curious case of Griffith V Griffith (1944)
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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E56 The Fifth Court - Martin Bradley, BL on the law around antiquities like the Elgin Marbles case
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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E55 The Fifth Court - Mark Garrett, Director General, Law Society of Ireland
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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E54 The Fifth Court - The Devils' Episode - Sarah Reid BL, Aran Grealish BL
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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E 53 The Fifth Court, Valerie Peart, Principal Pearts Solicitors & Town Agents, (est. 1883)
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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E52 The Fifth Court, Aoife Farrelly barrister, Susan Ahern, barrister, on sports arbitration
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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E51 The Fifth Court - Ronan McGreevy co-author, The Kidnapping: A hostage, a desperate manhunt and a bloody rescue that shocked Ireland
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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E50 The Fifth Court - Mr Justice Gerard Hogan, The Supreme Court, Part II. 50th anniversary McGee v. The Attorney General [1973] decision.
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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E49 The Fifth Court - Mr Justice Gerard Hogan of The Supreme Court discusses the seismic McGee v. The Attorney General [1973] decision.
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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E48 The Fifth Court - Barry Andrews MEP
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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E47 The Fifth Court - Tim Ryan, author Housing: A Missed Opportunity - the tangled story of the Kenny Report published by the Irish Government in 1973
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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E46 The Fifth Court, Michael O'Flaherty, Director of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency - implementing human rights 'on the ground'..
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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E45 The Fifth Court - Niamh Howlin, Ass. Professor Law UCD - author, a history of barristers in Ireland
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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E44 The Fifth Court - Former solicitor, barrister now novelist, Andrea Carter
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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E43 The Fifth Court - Barry Creed, Partner, McDermott Creed & Martyn Solicitors
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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E42 The Fifth Court - Patricia Hickey and Gary Lee, Irish Court Services making courts more inclusive
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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E41 The Fifth Court - Rock and Roll, Part 2. Electric Picnic interview w/ Rory Carroll, author Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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E40 The Fifth Court - Rock and Roll, Part 1. Electric Picnic interview w/ Rroy Carroll, author Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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E39 The Fifth Court, Dr. Ian Marder, Restorative Justice expert
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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E38 The Fifth Court - David McKechnie, Life After Law
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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E37 The Fifth Court - Retired High Court judge Deirdre Murphy, 'too many barristers', 'big law firms are fixed on the bottom line'
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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E36 The Fifth Court - Glen Gibbons SC on the highly contentious area of copyright law - presented by Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BL
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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E35 The Fifth Court - Michael O'Higgins SC asks 'But is it justice..?' Presented by Mark Tottenham BL and Peter Leonard BL
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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E34 The Fifth Court - The 'Eileen Flynn' case, Dr. Donal Coffey NUI Maynooth, explains this extraordinary case to presenters Mark Tottenham BL and Peter Leonard BL
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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E33 - The Fifth Court - Mark Finan BL & Caroline McGrath BL on CJEU cases around GDPR
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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E32 The Fifth Court - Prof Oonagh Breen & Dr. Noel McGrath BL discuss Chief Baron Palles, forty years an Irish judge
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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E31 The Fifth Court Luigi Rea BL and Darren Lalor BL talk strike for the restitution of their professional fees
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May 30, 2023 |
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E30 The Fifth Court, former Supreme Court judge, John MacMenamim on why he had 'the best job in the world'.
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May 23, 2023 |
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E29 The Fifth Court - Daithí Mac Cárthaigh - the Irish language and the law
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May 16, 2023 |
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E28 The Fifth Court - Mr. Justice Richard Humphreys rebuts claims that court judgements are tainted by Wikipedia
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May 10, 2023 |
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E27 The Fifth Court, journalist and author Dominic Carman, son of famous libel lawyer George Carman, talks about Ireland's legal firms and, of course, about his famous dad...
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May 02, 2023 |
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E26 The Fifth Court - Dr Brian Flanagan, NUI Maynooth, purported Wikipedia use by High Court judges
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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E25 The Fifth Court - Fred Logue, solicitor, sometimes seen as David V Goliath in planning cases
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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E24 The Fifth Court - Bill Holohan solicitor and SC talks mediation
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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E23 The Fifth Court - Cian O'Carroll solicitor incl his work with client Vicky Phelan
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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E22 The Fifth Court Geoffrey Robertston KC '
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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E21 The Fifth Court - Martin Canny BL - The Statute of Limitations
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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E20 The Fifth Court - Kevin Duffy, Labour Court (retd.)
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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E19 The Fifth Court - Mr. Declan Keane on medical case 'expert shopping'
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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E18 The Fifth Court Ciara Dowd BL and solicitor Aileen Curry
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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E17 The Fifth Court Stephen Hanaphy BL PhD - curious cases of copyright law
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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E16 The Fifth Court - Dr. Neil Maddox BL, lecturer NUI Maynooth, on laws around vaccines and personal rights
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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E15 The Fifth Court - Ted Harding SC, media law et al
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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E14 The Fifth Court - Gemma McLoughlin-Burke - life as a Judicial Assistant
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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E13 The Fifth Court - Claire Bruton BL & Cliona Kimber SC
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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E12 The Fifth Court - Frank Buttimer, Cork solicitor
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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E11 The Fifth Court - West Cork solicitor Flor McCarthy
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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E10 The Fifth Court, Ursula Kilkelly, Professor and Head of College of Business and Law, UCC
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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E9 - Sara Phelan SC, Chair of Bar Council, The Fifth Court
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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E8 The Fifth Court - Mr. Justice Gerard Hogan and the execution of Erskine Childers
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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E7 The Fifth Court - Gerard Groarke BL & Stephen Dowling SC - automating the law
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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E6 The Fifth Court - Colm O'Dwyer SC, Asylum
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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E5 The Fifth Court Katherine McGillicuddy BL - The Special Criminal Court
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Episode 4 The Fifth Court - Keith Walsh SC and Solicitor, talks about all aspects of family law, including what he's seeing with same-sex divorces and issues around share vesting for Big Tech employees
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Episode 3 The Fifth Court - Ireland's legal podcast - Simon Mills SC, medical negligence
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Episode 2 The Fifth Court - Ireland's legal podcast - Karyn Harty, Partner, Dentons
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Episode 1 - The Fifth Court legal podcast - VIP guest Mr. Justice Gerard Hogan
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Oct 04, 2022 |