E56 The Fifth Court - Martin Bradley, BL on the law around antiquities like the Elgin Marbles case

The Fifth Court - DSBA Legal Podcast of the Year

On Episode 56 Martin Bradley, an archivist and recently qualified barrister, talks about cultural heritage and the repatriation of cultural artefacts.

But first our hosts, Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BL, asked Martin what made him turn his back on the GLAM sector. The GLAM sector? Listen to find out all about it as well as what the rights and wrongs of ownership of historical artefacts by both public bodies, museums (including Limerick's Hunt Museum) and private persons are. Expect the unexpected as Angelina Jolie also makes a cameo appearance.

And for Martin's cultural recommendation is a book, 'The Brutish Museum' by Dan Hicks, Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford.

And, as usual, our dynamic duo bring us three current cases from the Decisis.ie website

• The first concerns an appeal about a blocked drains issue from the Residential Tenancy Board and is curious in that the quantum being sought was €88,000 but that €20,000 is the maximum permissible payout.
• The 2nd case is a criminal case involving the murder of a woman returning from her place of work and the admissibility of what is termed a 'dying declaration'.
• The third case concerns the refusal by An Garda Síochána to grant a license for a specific type of gun to a citizen and involves the concept of 'fettering their discretion'.

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