E41 The Fifth Court - Rock and Roll, Part 2. Electric Picnic interview w/ Rory Carroll, author Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown

The Fifth Court - DSBA Legal Podcast of the Year

E41 The Fifth Court - Part Two of two parts recorded at the Electric Picnic festival where the crowd chanted 'Ooh, aah, Up the Fifth Court!'

On this second part, we concentrate on the actual trial of Patrick Magee.

Presenters Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BL interview Rory Carroll author and staff correspondent at The Guardian newspaper.

He has just published his latest book 'Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown'.

It tells the story of how the Irish Republican Army planted a bomb that exploded at 2:54 a.m. on October 1984, the last day of that year's British Conservative Party Conference at the Grand Hotel, Brighton, England. An audacious attempt to wipe out the entire British government, it came astonishingly close to killing the Iron Lady.

There's also discussion of two more cases from the Decisis.ie casebook;

The first case concerns a construction contract payment dispute

A second case regarding the disposal of a firearm used in a murder

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