Episode 111 The Fifth Court

DSBA 'Podcast of the Year'

Patrick Costello, barrister and former Green Party TD and party spokesperson on Justice

He took the CETA (EU Canada trade agreement involving private courts) case to the Supreme Court

If haven't delved into these private courts, this is a 'must listen'.

His choice of movie: (the brilliant) My Cousin Vinnie - dir. Jonathan Lynn (Patrick wrote an essay about it).

His book recommendation: An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians? by Geoffrey Robertson

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A bonus episode, from The Fifth Court team.

Episode No.9 The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED - recent interesting cases, including a legal challenge by a pilot against Ryanair, taken from the Decisis.ie Law Reports casebook introduced by Mark Tottenham, BL, and Peter Leonard, BL.

Brought to you thanks to Charlton's Solicitors and Collaborative Practitioners, of George's Street, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin

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E110 The Fifth Court

DSBA Podcast of the Year

Brendan Slattery, Head of Environment and Planning, McCann FitzGerald solrs. talks to our interlocutors, Peter Leonard, BL, and Mark Tottenham, BL, about the new Planning Act (all 900 pages of it).

As Peter says, what Brendan doesn't know about planning law isn't worth knowing. And, as always, there's a back story. He was once a goat farmer.You'll also hear about Elvis Presley's connections with Wicklow.

His choice of book is The World for Sale by Javier Blas & Jack Farchy and for a movie he recommends A Complete Unknown, the movie about Bob Dylan.

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