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Jun 2022
8m 11s

In Our Defence: Forster v Donovan

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Kieran was joined by Gavin O'Dowd for another episode of 'In Our Defence'. This week he took a closer look at the case of Forster v Donovan where a court had to decide whether a dog’s owner was responsible the dog's attack on a postman. 
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