2 weeks Ago
There’s a reason why legal dramas are such a popular genre, why we consume reports of court cases, whether civil or criminal, so assiduously. I blame The Paper Chase for my own decision to go to law school, and I know for a fact that there’s a whole generation of lawyers — both men and women — inspired by The Good Wife , hoping to meet their very own Will Gardner in among the dusty stacks. (I’m showing my age, nobody reads law reports in print any more, do they?) It’s human nature to love a good story featuring larger-than-life characters, and some of the best are played out in the vicinity of the Four Courts.
Nobody could speak of anything else when Nikita Hand’s civil claim against Conor McGregor was running last year, and even the preliminaries of the Web Summit case before it settled last month were gripping. Now we have John Magnier’s Barne Estate showdown — with the elements (money, land and alpha personalities, only the sex is missing) of a compelling television drama — to look forward to..
