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Legally Fond

Gavin Dowd

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...

Episodes

20 of 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...

2:23May 14, 2021

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 S...

34:32May 6, 2021

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 protecti...

25:02Apr 28, 2021

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 colloq...

21:08Apr 21, 2021

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, yo...

31:20Apr 14, 2021

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...

25:53Apr 7, 2021

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 st...

16:49Mar 31, 2021

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 administe...

24:32Mar 24, 2021

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 bre...

20:27Mar 17, 2021

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 gra...

20:14Mar 10, 2021

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...

18:30Mar 3, 2021

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 Iris...

23:48Feb 24, 2021

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 che...

27:49Feb 24, 2021

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 f...

0:30Feb 19, 2021

€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'...

25:06Dec 9, 2020

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 r...

25:33Dec 2, 2020

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 tr...

22:29Nov 25, 2020

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 an...

11:01Nov 19, 2020

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...

28:42Nov 18, 2020

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 dinn...

33:51Nov 11, 2020