SCHOOLTEACHER ENOCH BURKE, who was dismissed from his position for alleged gross misconduct, has been ordered to pay legal costs to the Wilson’s Hospital School in their successful High Court action against him earlier this year.
It submitted that Burke was dismissed from his position because he had intimidated and harassed a colleague and had breached the confidence of a student in the school who wished to transition. Counsel for the school, Alex White SC, said that Wilson’s Hospital School was seeking damages of €15,000 for Burke having trespassed, as well as costs involved in the case.
Justice Owens told him that what was at stake in the current proceedings was whether the court would award costs to the school and said that there would have to be exceptional reasons as to why the costs should not follow. The judge told Burke that he was still free to appeal the outcome of the original case in which Owens ruled that he was lawfully suspended from his teaching position at Wilson’s Hospital secondary school.
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