:29:01
l'll be taking you home soon, pet.
:29:06
Very soon.
:29:20
l hear you're doing well at your new job.
:29:23
My circumstances have improved,
as you would say.
:29:26
So, you'll take the case, then?
:29:30
You've been drinking, haven't you?
l can smell it off your breath.
:29:33
Since we're not planning on kissing,
l don't see a problem.
:29:37
lt's not going to help our case...
:29:39
if the court thinks
you're drinking your pay packet.
:29:42
Our case?
:29:44
That means you'll take it, then?
:29:47
Who is this gobshite?
:29:49
This ''gobshite''
is the Minister for Education.
:29:51
He's claiming we require the consent
of your wife for the release of your kids.
:29:56
How can we get her consent
when she's disappeared?
:29:59
Even her pudding-faced old mother's
got no address.
:30:02
lt's the law. Yours is a unique case.
:30:05
Normally, the wife would be deceased.
:30:07
She ran out on her kids.
What kind of mother would do that?
:30:10
We could argue that she's emotionally
incapable of bringing up the children...
:30:15
but l'm afraid all of that is,
strictly speaking, irrelevant.
:30:18
The law still requires her consent...
:30:20
no matter how irresponsibly
she may have behaved.
:30:22
To hell with the law.
:30:25
That attitude will get us nowhere, Desmond.
:30:30
l've done everything l was asked to do.
:30:33
That District Judge or Justice
didn't tell me l'd need my wife's consent.
:30:37
He definitely misdirected you,
which gives us a useful basis for a start.
:30:41
But it may not be material enough...
:30:43
for a challenge in law,
as there are no precedents for your case.
:30:47
We'll make the bloody precedent!
l want justice!
:30:50
The law and justice
are two entirely different things.
:30:54
Jesus. You can say that again.
:30:56
Of course, l'm only a solicitor.
:30:58
l'm not entitled to speak
in a court case like this.