Activist Lawyer
The Activist Lawyer podcast offers a platform for lawyers to share their story and journey into law and activism. Guests will discuss the challenges and highlights of their work as well as important cases, opinions on legal and political matters and will offer advice and tips for anyone interested in pursuing a career in human rights law, public interest law or criminal justice.
The Activist Lawyer Podcast is brought to you by the Granite Podcast Studio.
Episodes

Oct 13, 2021
Oct 13, 2021
43 min
In this week's episode, Jack and Sarah are joined by Maria McCloskey, Immigration Solicitor at The Children's Law Centre.

Oct 7, 2021
Oct 7, 2021
34 min
In this week’s episode, Sarah Henry is joined in the studio by Pádraig Ó Muirigh, Director of Ó Muirigh Solicitors.
Pádraig is an experienced legal practitioner who specialises in Inquest Law, Legacy Inquiries, actions against the Police, Judicial Review, and Human Rights and Criminal Law.

Sep 16, 2021
Sep 16, 2021
1hr 3 min
In this week’s episode, Sarah and Jack are joined in the studio by the team at The PILS Project, Emma Cassidy, and Sarah Corrigan.
Sarah and Emma speak about the work of the PILS Project to support human rights and equality in Northern Ireland through public interest litigation, as they support over 130 members.
Show References:
A more complete description of all their services is here.
The Impact Report includes details on both the letting fees case that Sarah mentioned, plus the pro bono work they did with The Detail's editorial team.
If any lawyers are wondering how to get involved with the Pro Bono Register, they can check out this recent blog.
You can sign up for their monthly Update newsletter here.
And the UK Pro Bono Week 2021 is on Twitter here: @ProBonoWeekUK

Sep 2, 2021
Sep 2, 2021
44 min
In this week's episode Megan explains what Cryptocurrency is, its benefits, how it is used in activist movements around the world and what we can expect from crypto in the future.

Aug 19, 2021
Aug 19, 2021
40 min
In this week’s episode, Sarah is joined by Maurece Hutchinson, Managing Director of JMK Solicitors.
Maurece will be talking about her activism around the issue of settlements for minors in personal injury claims as well as the 4-day working week adopted by her law firm!
For more information:
Department of Justice Website

Aug 6, 2021
Aug 6, 2021
22 min
In this week's episode, Sarah joins Jack in the studio with the newest member of the Activist team, 6-week old baby Ava! to talk about our upcoming series.

Jul 15, 2021
Jul 15, 2021
39 min
In this week's episode, Karen speaks about the success Berkeley Solicitors has achieved in recent years, such as wins in the Supreme Court and referrals to the European Court of Justice.

Jul 1, 2021
Jul 1, 2021
30 min
In Part 2 Phil covers Mother and Baby Homes, Death investigation, Coroners’ inquests and provides some inspirational advice for aspiring activists!

Jul 1, 2021
Jul 1, 2021
49 min
In this week’s Special Edition episode of Activist Lawyer, Sarah and Jack sit down with widely published academic, author and Professor Emeritus at the School of Law in Queen’s University Belfast, Phil Scraton.
In Part 1, we speak about Phil’s involvement in the investigation of the Hillsborough disaster and the impact of the recent trial collapse.

Jul 1, 2021
Jul 1, 2021
34 min
In this week's episode, Sarah and Jack were delighted to find out more about the excellent work of 50:50NI and it’s founder Aoife Clements.
Aoife has a challenging but exciting job ahead of her as she brings a team together to encourage more women to get into politics in NI.
In this episode Aoife highlights the barriers facing women in politics, refers to fantastic women leaders and tells a bit about herself and how she campaigns for change!



