{"id":8068,"date":"2013-02-01T12:45:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T12:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=8068"},"modified":"2013-02-01T12:45:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T12:45:24","slug":"the-brief-thursday-31st-jan-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=8068","title":{"rendered":"The Brief Thursday 31st Jan 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brief Thursday 31st January, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Presented by barristers Andrew Robinson and Peter Leonard.<\/p>\n<p>The presenters look at:<\/p>\n<p>The days decision in the High Court challenge to the Anglo Irish Bank promissory note, barrister Vincent P. Martin, explains how the President of the High Court decided the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Air must pay compensation to a passenger stranded by the Icelandic ash cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Geoffrey Browne&#8217;s outrageous and intemperate comments.<\/p>\n<p>NAMA and the huge legal fees they have paid out. The criminal legal aid scheme fees, and are solicitors paying the management of the Law Society too much?<\/p>\n<p>All this and more.<\/p>\n<p>Peter talks to Paul Tweed about defamation law, and his celebrity clients including Louis Walsh.<\/p>\n<p>SCA lawyer Jeff Tillotson on their legal action in Texas to recover $12 million paid in bonuses to Lance Armstrong.<\/p>\n<p>Lecturer in Law NUI Maynooth Robert Gaudet on class actions.<\/p>\n<p>Solicitor Mark Newby, contributor to the Justice Gap blog on Barry George and others unsuccessful attempt to claim compensation for their wrongful convictions.<\/p>\n<p>Barrister and editor of the Stare Decisis Hibernia blog Mark Tottenham, on offshore accounts, anti social behaviour and the latest Superior Courts decision.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Andrew Robinson and Killian Donoghue.<br \/>\nEngineered by Aoife Nic Canna and Patrick Geurin.<br \/>\nResearch by Killian Donoghue.<br \/>\nTechnical Support and podcast by Gavin Byrne<br \/>\nProduction Assistant Rosa Tottenham<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5634\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/thebrief31Jan.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('5634','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/thebrief31Jan.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/thebrief31Jan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=8068-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/thebrief31Jan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"thebrief31Jan.mp3\">Download<\/a> (55.6MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brief Thursday 31st January, 2013 Presented by barristers Andrew Robinson and Peter Leonard. The presenters look at: The days decision in the High Court challenge to the Anglo Irish Bank promissory note, barrister Vincent P. Martin, explains how the President of the High Court decided the matter. Ryan Air must pay compensation to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5635\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/thebrief31Jan.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('5635','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/thebrief31Jan.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/thebrief31Jan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=8068-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/thebrief31Jan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"thebrief31Jan.mp3\">Download<\/a> (55.6MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-currentaffairs","category-the-brief-currentaffairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}