Solicitor warned of class action over comments

A solicitor singled out, for special praise, a young woman from the Roma community for her intelligence, but a judge remarked the lawyer could have a class action for defamation on his hands.

The particular web of words was woven during a case at Cork District Court relating to hair-braiding.

Carmen Rosta, aged 22, pleaded guilty to three breaches of casual trading legislation by offering hair-braiding on St Patrick’s Street, Cork.