Enoch Burke wins court appeal over disciplinary panel bias in dismissal case

Court of Appeal halts disciplinary hearing into Enoch Burke’s dismissal, citing potential bias due to panel member’s ASTI role

Ms Justice Mary Faherty, on behalf of the three-judge Court of Appeal, said with 'a great deal of reluctance', she would grant an injunction to Mr Burke restraining the appeals panel, as presently constituted, from from holding a hearing. File picture: Collins Courts

Teacher Enoch Burke has won an appeal over the composition of a disciplinary panel set up to hear his appeal against his dismissal from Wilson's Hospital school.

Mr Burke claimed a member of the three-person appeals panel, Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI) general secretary Kieran Christie, was a “promoter of transgenderism”. The appeals panel denied his claim.