Enoch Burke

The High Court this month made an order for the indefinite detention of Enoch Burke after finding him in contempt of a court order. Delivering an ex tempore judgment for the High Court, Mr Justice Mark Heslin noted that court orders are not an “à la carte menu” and that a party su

On 8 September, Mr Justice Mark Heslin committed Enoch Burke to prison for his failure to comply with a court order restraining him from trespassing at Wilson’s Hospital School. Although Mr Burke had been ordered to stay away from his former place of work since September 2022, a permanent inj

The High Court has ruled that Mr Enoch Burke has until 23 March to pay €23,800 to Wilson’s Hospital School and, in the event that he fails to pay the monies, the school will be “at large” to enforce the fines. This included seeking the sequestration of Mr Burke’s assets,

The High Court has directed that the full trial of the case involving Mr Enoch Burke and Wilson’s Hospital School will take place at the end of the month, despite the fact that the school had failed to comply with certain court directions. The school’s solicitors had been late in providi

The Court of Appeal has upheld the validity of injunctions which were obtained by Wilson’s Hospital School to restrain a former teacher, Mr Enoch Burke, from attending the school premises. Delivering the main judgment in the case, Mr Justice George Birmingham held that both the interim and int

The High Court has refused an application by Enoch Burke to stay the case management of High Court proceedings pending the determination of his appeals to the Court of Appeal. In October 2022, the court decided that it would case manage the High Court proceedings and made directions for the delivery

The High Court has ruled that Enoch Burke will be fined €700 per day if he continues to defy a court order requiring him to stay away from his former school. Mr Burke had been released from prison for contempt of court in December 2022 but began attending his former place of work in January onc

The High Court has released Enoch Burke from prison, stating that this was “one of the very rare cases where the coercive imprisonment should stop”. It was held that Mr Burke was motivated to remain in prison, having made a number of illogical decisions during the course of the litigatio