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Nov 2021
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Episode 47: The Courting Rituals

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The first Lord Chief Justice for the State is Catholic unionist Sir Denis Henry, who faces an enormous task in establishing the framework for a new justice system. Meanwhile, two Belfast women are making legal history in a move that only reaches its conclusion a century later, as Northern Ireland’s first Lady Chief Justice, Siobhan Keegan, explains. 
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