Help?

Joanee

Hello everyone! this is a ridiculoulsy long shot but i'm a law student who needs to know where do young barrister type individuals go for drinks????I was very recently with a really nice guy, who is deviling as a barriseter in Dublin and gave him my number yet lost my phone the following day....??? can anyone give me a clue as to where i might find him???

hullaballoo

Joanee wrote:

Hello everyone! this is a ridiculoulsy long shot but i'm a law student who needs to know where do young barrister type individuals go for drinks????I was very recently with a really nice guy, who is deviling as a barriseter in Dublin and gave him my number yet lost my phone the following day....??? can anyone give me a clue as to where i might find him???

Welcome to the hullaballoo and besty dating service. There is no fee for first-time users, but once you're hooked, we'll squeeze you dry. Enjoy your stay.

Try the four court's café or else just get a new 'phone with the same number.

Thirdfox

The Legal Eagle pub? It's beside the four courts afaik.

hullaballoo

Nah, no one goes there. That's full of the people who are in the Four Courts for the other reason.

Thirdfox

Lol ...we are talking about journalists right?

Adey2002

Theres the Quill on the other side of the Four Courts complex.

besty

hullaballoo wrote:

Welcome to the hullaballoo and besty dating service. There is no fee for first-time users, but once you're hooked, we'll squeeze you dry. Enjoy your stay.

Ah, how I do enjoy playing the Cilla Black type...

hullaballoo

I'm more of a Bruno Brooks type. Who remembers that one?


Bruno himself:

Edit: That's such a dodgy photo.

MrPudding

I think getting the new phone and porting the number would be the best idea.

You could also check your voicemail if you had a pin number setup. Ring you phone and wait till it goes through to voicemail, press # and then put in your pin. If it doesn't ring trying dial voicemail directly. if you number is 086 123456 dial 0865 123456 and it will go straight to VM.

MrP

Victor

Are you pregnant?

:rolleyes:

Joanee

Joanee wrote:

I was very recently with a really nice guy

A very nice guy? You sure he was a barrister?

Stick up his first name, tell us what exactly you mean by 'with' for our titillation, and I'll get on to someone...

Thirdfox

Victor wrote:

Are you pregnant?

:rolleyes:

Clearly defamatory! Isn't this one of the cases where no harm needs to be shown in order for a slander action to take place?

I think the special categories are accusation of contagious disease, business rep., women's virtue and criminal offences.

maidhc

Thirdfox wrote:

Clearly defamatory! Isn't this one of the cases where no harm needs to be shown in order for a slander action to take place?

I think the special categories are accusation of contagious disease, business rep., women's virtue and criminal offences.

Except it isnt slander, it is libel, so it is actionable per se in any event.

hullaballoo

Except it isn't defamation at all. Since when would someone being pregnant lower anyone in the mind of a right-thinking person?

The_Minister

hullaballoo wrote:

Except it isn't defamation at all. Since when would someone being pregnant lower anyone in the mind of a right-thinking person?

You haven't watched the Magdalene sisters have you?

besty

Firespinner wrote:

You haven't watched the Magdalene sisters have you?

In fairness, that's quite an outdated mindset though!

maidhc

hullaballoo wrote:

Except it isn't defamation at all. Since when would someone being pregnant lower anyone in the mind of a right-thinking person?

No but accusing someone of getting pregnant from a one night stand could well be.

hullaballoo

Why?

maidhc

hullaballoo wrote:

Why?

Because it gets dangerously close to calling someone a slut/trollop etc. which certainly can have the effect of lower that persons standing in the eyes of right thinking members of society. A bit like calling someone "gay" really (e.g. John Reynold's case)

hullaballoo

Reynolds v Malocco was probably a little perverse though.

maidhc

hullaballoo wrote:

Reynolds v Malocco was probably a little perverse though.

I love the defence where gay was to mean vivacious and full of life....

I don't think it was a wrong decision though. We are still not at a place where you can call someone gay on national publication and not cause them harm in some way. Maybe sometime in the future it will be cast aside, who knows.

NUTLEY BOY

Joanee.

Maybe fate decreed that you should lose your phone.

Are you aware of the Oxford dictionary definition of a barrister as someone who is half-way between a bankrupt and a bastard ? If he is a devil he is nearer to being a bankrupt.

If you are really pining and want to contact him look at the Bar Council's website to find his contact details. This assumes that you remember his name as distinct from his face.

The URL is http://lawlibrary.ie/members/

Thirdfox

They do have pictures of faces on the bar council website.

BTW the Oxford definition of a barrister is:
"A student of the law, who, having been called to the bar, has the privilege of practising as advocate in the superior courts of law. The formal title is barrister-at-law; the equivalent designation in Scotland is advocate.
The name originated in the ancient internal arrangements of the Inns of Court: see quot. 1545 infra, and BAR n. 24. But by 1600, it was currently associated with the bar of the courts of justice, at which utter-barristers had before that date secured the right to plead, formerly possessed only by sergeants and apprentices-at-law."
(not to be pedantic or anything!)