LIVE from Kilkenny Festival: Liberty and the Magdalene Laundries

We're coming to you live from the Financial Remedies Conference 2026! For this special episode, we're joined by Greg Howe, founding director and senior family law practitioner at Howe Jenkin Family Lawyers & Mediators in Adelaide, Australia, and Graeme Fraser, who leads family law at William Sturges and is chair of Resolution’s Cohabitation Committee. We're following up on a previous episode, in which we discussed whether the British Government might legislate in favour of a fairer end to relationships. Our expert guests tell us what the future has in store and why.

What does the law say about industrial farming? Pigs are regularly being slaughtered via torturous exposure to carbon dioxide gas, despite stipulations that the animals must not undergo unnecessary harm. Although, the alternatives are not much less brutal.. So what is considered necessary harm? And when should the Government be taking action? Joining us to debate the ethics (and the law!) of the issue is CEO of Compassion in World Farming, Philip Lymbery.

We're divided over the abolition of the Chancery Division. Should we be preserving this historical title, or should we embracing the new 'Business and Property Division' (effective October 1)? Joining us this week is the Former Lord High Chancellor, Robert Buckland, to encourage us to consider the value of the law's legacy.

The Lindsay Clancy murder trial has received international public interest both for the questions it raises around postnatal wellbeing and support, as well as the recent declaration of a mistrial after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict. In January 2023, Clancy, a former neonatal and delivery nurse, had been accused of strangling her three children, all five-and-under. Earlier this month, the murder trial saw a split jury, 11-1, which has meant the case is yet to see closure. Now, we can but sit tight, and confer as to what might come next.

A recently released Channel 4 documentary exposed footage of Nigel Farage and other Reform UK party members celebrating secret new foreign donations, thanks to undercover filming by investigative journalism group Verbatim. Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office in the House of Lords, Baroness Simone Finn joined us at short notice to discuss the possible legal ramifications of these funding arrangements and express our dismay at the erosion of 'honorable' party politics.