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E122 The Fifth Court - Frank McNally, Irish Times - a Bloomsday (Legal) Special

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Show Notes

E122 The Fifth Court Frank McNally, author of Irish Times 'An Irishman's Diary', on Bloomsday, June 16th 1904 - The many legal themes running through one of the great English language books. His cultural recommendation, 'The Third Policeman', by Flann O'Brien His movie choice is 'All the President's Men'

The episode also includes recent important cases drawn from the Decisis casebook and discussed by Mark Tottenham BL and Peter Leonard BL. These cases are brought to you thanks to Charltons Solicitors and Collaborative Practitioners, Georges St. Dun Laoghaire, Dublin. Cases include A Personal Injuries case involving the Hotel Kilkenny and a claim about a wet floor A case where a businessman breached several equitable reliefs A judgement debt that had not been extinguished by a previous settlement agreement Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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