Legally Fond
The podcast which makes law simple. In each episode, Pierce, Alex and Gavin tell the story of a significant legal case, discussing the personalities, the courtroom drama and the implications. Its your way to get up to speed with the law without needing a law degree! Legally Fond is in association with LawSchool.ie.
Episodes
43 episodes
Did You Win Our Free FE1 Revision Course?
We reveal the winner of our FE1/King's Inns entrance exam revision course with thanks to LawSchool.ie...
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Season 3
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2:23
West Cork - Speaking to Ian Bailey's Defence Solicitor
In the final episode of Legally Fond, Gavin speaks to Frank Buttimer, the solicitor of Ian Bailey. Ian was a suspect in the 1996 murder of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier. The French government tried to extradite him three times to France, the countr...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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34:32
The Mahon Tribunal - Corruption in Irish Politics
In this week’s episode the team explain and discuss the functions of tribunals. How do they differ from regular courts of law? What protection is afforded to those who are the subjects of a tribunal’s inquiry? Pierce, Gavin, and Alex share thei...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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25:02
Having Their Cake And Eating It - The Gay Cake Case
In this week’s episode, Gavin, Pierce and Alex discuss the UK Supreme Court judgment in Lee v Ashers Baking Company. This case, known colloquially as the 'gay cake case' concerned alleged discrimination over a refusal to print a pro-gay m...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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21:08
The Irishman Whose Case Got Uber Drivers Recognised As Workers
"We didn't change the law, we didn't make the law. All we did was assert the law." In this week's episode of Legally Fond, you'll hear an interview with former Uber driver James Farrar who was one of the lead claimants in the recent Supreme Cou...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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31:20
Should All Political Parties Get Equal Airtime?
This week on Legally Fond, Pierce, Gavin and Alex tackle the topic of impartial political coverage by RTE by examining the case of Coughlan v Broad Complaints Commission. The case concerns the state broadcaster’s engagement with the issues of t...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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25:53
The Not So Smooth Criminal
We discuss the case of a man who left his car unattended on Dublin's Talbot Street with the engine running. The car was subsequently stolen and collided with a pedestrian. The injured pedestrian sued the owner of the car for his negligence in l...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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16:49
Doctor Knows Best - Jehova's Witnesses and Blood Transfusions
In this week’s episode of Legally Fond the team look at a case concerning a High Court decision to allow a blood transfusion to be administered to a woman who had previously refused it on religious grounds. Gavin, Pierce and Alex pick apart con...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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24:32
Modern Monopolies: The EU Takes on Google
We discuss the European Commission decision on Google's comparison shopping service. How will this affect the big tech firms and is breaking them up in order to open the market the correct approach?
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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20:27
Don't Stop The Leavin' - Calculated Grades in Court
In this week’s episode of Legally Fond, the team discuss the recent High Court challenge to the Leaving Certificate system of calculated grades by Belvedere student Freddie Sherry. Pierce, Gavin and Alex discuss Mr Justice Meenan’s decision in ...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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20:14
Rock on, Rockall
In this week’s episode of Legally Fond, the team discuss Rockall – a small, uninhabited islet in the north Atlantic but the subject of much dispute and disagreement. Pierce, Gavin, and Alex explain the legal confusion surrounding the rightful o...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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18:30
Go Green Or Go Home - Friends of The Irish Environment
In the flagship episode of season three, we discuss the seminal Supreme Court decision in the recent environmental case ‘Friends of the Irish Environment v Government of Ireland’. We explain why the government’s climate action plan was struck d...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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23:48
Champagne Football - The Gospel According to John (Delaney)
In March 2019, Sunday Times Journalist Mark Tighe returned to his desk and found two documents waiting for him. One was a photocopy of a cheque made out to the FAI by its then Chief Executive John Delaney for €100,000. The other was a confirmat...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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27:49
Season Three Is Coming!
Legally Fond is returning for a third season, starting on Wednesday 24th February.You’ll hear about how one of the biggest names in Irish football took on The Sunday Times in court to stop it publishing a story about him only hours befor...
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Season 3
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Episode 0
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0:30
€13 Billion - An Apple A Day Keeps The Taxman Away
Earlier this year, the General Court of the European Union found against the European Commission in the so-called 'Apple tax case'. This meant that the Commission was unable to prove to the required standard that the Irish government had given ...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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25:06
El Presidente - What Does The Irish President Actually Do?
Although many consider the Irish Presidency a largely ceremonial role, one significant constitutional power which the President has is the right to refer bills to the Supreme Court to check their constitutionality before they are made law. One ...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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25:33
All I Want For Christmas Is EU - Crotty's Case
It is an oddity of Irish politics that in 2001, when nearly 53% of voters opted to reject the EU's Nice Treaty, the Irish Government tried a 'second time lucky' approach, holding a second referendum on the same question. It passed, with 62% in ...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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22:29
Wigs at War - The Judge Who Cried 'Woulfe'
A week on from Chief Justice Frank Clarke's publication of his correspondence with Seamus Woulfe, we discuss what has happened since and what might happen next. Also, could this saga lead to the reform of judicial appointments?
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Season 2
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11:01
The Robots Are Coming - Regulating AI
Artificial intelligence is revolutionising how we do business. With its countless opportunities, it also presents risks. To what extent will we be delegating our decision making to computers and robots? Do we trust them to make accurate decisio...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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28:42
Wigs at War - Trouble In The Supreme Court
The controversy trundles on over the attendance of Supreme Court Justice Seamus Woulfe's attendance at the Oireachtas Golf Society dinner in August. Last Sunday, the Chief Justice Frank Clarke sent a letter to Woulfe, who has not yet sat on the...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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33:51
No Ifs, Just Butts - Suing Big Tobacco
Should somebody who has been a smoker for many decades be able to sue a tobacco company for their personal injuries? The case we discuss this week deals with this question. The tobacco company sought to have the case thrown out of court on the ...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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25:05
Knock Knock - The Gardai and Search Warrants
If the Gardai break your constitutional rights by storming into your house, collect incriminating evidence with a search warrant which is faulty, defective or has the wrong address on it, should they be able to use this evidence against you at ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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26:36
Senator David Norris - How I Sued The Government
In 1980s conservative Ireland, when the state was under the wrath of the Catholic Church, gay rights activist David Norris challenged a criminal law forbidding sodomy. His case failed in the High Court and was shot down in the Supreme Court. De...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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30:54
Justice Fried Is Not Justice Denied - Egging and the Law
We discuss a tragic case in which a pedestrian lost their eye after having an egg thrown in her direction. The egg was thrown by the passenger of a car driven by a 17 year-old. But why did the injured pedestrian sue the 17 year-old driver, rath...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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23:27
The Underdogs - Supermacs And O'Neills Versus The World
Everyone loves a good underdog story. And being Irish, we wanted to focus on two cases of indigenous companies taking on big business.The first is a case of David versus Goliath - of Supermac versus BigMac. What happened when an Irish fa...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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23:25
