Court told Attorney General has standing to seek sequestration of Enoch Burke's assets

The teacher owes some €190,000 in fines

Enoch Burke has spent more than 500 days in Mountjoy Prison for refusing to abide by a court order to stay away from Wilson's Hospital School. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin.

The Attorney General believes he has standing to seek to sequester the assets of teacher Enoch Burke who is once again attending at the school where he previously worked in an alleged breach of a court order, the High Court has heard.

Lawyers representing Rossa Fanning said they do not think there is anything wrong with the Attorney General being the moving party in such an application, brought with regard to some €190,000 in fines, as he would have standing “in the public interest”.