E58 The Fifth Court

The Future of Legal Practice Summit, Part 1, at The Law Society of Ireland

Our award winning podcasters, Peter Leonard, BL and Mark Tottenham BL, are joined by solicitors Sonia McEntee (qualified 1998, now Cavan based) and David Peters (based in Nenagh, Tipperary) to discuss the very real threat to the legal profession in rural Ireland, as the many large corporate firms are hoovering up top talent, leaving very few young solicitors wishing and choosing to practice their law in smaller towns. It's not all gloom though as you will learn, as lifestyle choice becomes important and making a difference to your own community is a non-financial dividend that some opt for. The issue of rural legal depopulation is an issue that the Law Society of Ireland is also helping to tackle.

And as always our dynamic duo start with three recent cases from the Decisis.ie casebook

• The first case concerns particulars being raised in a Judicial Review of a planning case. It's an important case for practitioners.
• The second case is about employment law, and the law around restraining an employer from firing an employee. This involved the Irish Prisons Service.
• The third case is about a man who it was alleged had infected two women with HIV but it transpired in the case that the women had other sex partners.

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