E64 The Fifth Court - The Legal Final Frontier? Outer Space Law. Zeldine O’Brien BL

The Fifth Court - DSBA Legal Podcast of the Year

E64 The Fifth Court, boldly going where no legal podcast has gone before.

Hosts Mark Tottenham BL and Peter Leonard BL talk to Zeldine O'Brien BL, a recognised expert in international space law who knows who 'owns' the Moon? What laws do you have to observe if you venture into outer space? Can you sell property on other planets? This is just brilliant, and not at all as straightforward as you may imagine.

Zeldine is a practising barrister and holds a Ph.D on international space law. During her years of doctoral research, she was a participant in the European Space Agency's student participation programme. She has published widely in the field of space law in Ireland, the Netherlands and the U.S. and has taught at Trinity's Law School. She has also taught in Kosovo with the Irish Rule of Law International's project there in coordination with the Kosovo Chamber of Advocates. She is a member of the Society of Legal Scholars.

As always our dynamic duo of interlocutors discuss three recent prominent cases from the Decisis.ie casebook.

• A case between Ryanair and On The Beach Ltd, concerning the latter's alleged screen scraping.
• A case involving a lay litigant who brought proceedings against the HSE, arising from certain medical treatments but the appellant hadn't brought any expert medical opinion to support her claim.
• In the third case the issue of 'nesting', where children remain in the family home, whilst the parents move in and out, alternately, following a separation, something that arises when two parents can't afford two separate homes.

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