The extraordinary exchanges in court yesterday between Enoch Burke and Judge Brian Cregan were covered in full yesterday by my colleague Maria, which removes the necessity to outline them all here in detail. However, they remain worthy of commentary.
In essence, the two men had a very public disagreement as to why Mr. Burke was being temporarily released from prison: To hear the Judge tell it, it is because it is in the interests of justice that Mr. Burke should have time to prepare detailed legal arguments ahead of his next legal case, in which Burke will be challenging the makeup of the disciplinary panel which is deciding whether to confirm his dismissal as a teacher at Wilson’s Hospital School. The Judge said that Enoch “needs time to focus on the issues in this case and properly prepare for the hearing” and that he was directing his release from prison because “it is in the interests of justice that he has the time to do so”.
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