Activist Lawyer

Episode 26: Pádraig Ó Muirigh

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.

Episode 25 - The PILS Project

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

Episode 24 - Megan Burns explains Cryptocurrency

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.

Episode 23 - In Conversation with Maurece Hutchinson

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 
 

Episode 22 - The one with the baby!

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. 

Episode 21 - In conversation with Karen Berkeley

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. 

Episode 20 - Part 2: Investigations into Deaths & Mother and Baby Homes with Phil Scraton

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

Episode 20 - Part 1: The Hillsborough Trial with Phil Scraton

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.

Episode 19 - In conversation with Aoife Clements

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!

Episode 18 - Stephen Kirwan

In this week's episode Sarah and Jack sit down with solicitor Stephen Kirwan who specializes in immigration, public interest law and human rights.  
There is way too much to cover with Stephen (as with many of our guests!) so we chose to discuss his current involvement in Mother & Baby Homes cases, immigration and asylum matters and have a general chat about how one gets into his line of work.