Ammi Burke’s behaviour during unfair dismissal hearing ‘unprecedented’, says High Court judge

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Throughout the hearing the judge had to leave due to Ms Burke speaking loudly over her and other lawyers “in spite of frequent requests to her not to do so”. There was also a pattern of refusing to accept the court’s decisions, the judge added.

Last May, as the court and lawyers strained to be heard over Ms Burke’s loud chanting, the judge dismissed her challenge to the WRC’s rejection of her claim of unfair dismissal from Arthur Cox.

Ms Burke, of Castlebar, Co Mayo, incessantly accused the judge of “litigating the case of Arthur Cox and the WRC”. Ms Burke’s “scripted mantra of objections” to a decision that had already been made and her conduct was “devoid of any attempts at persuasion and appeared to be designed solely to collapse the hearing before the court”.

The court had was “compelled” to grant the application by Arthur Cox and the WRC to dismiss her claim. “There was no alternative option identified or available to the court that would have enabled the hearing to continue,” the judge added.Ms Justice Bolger noted Ms Burke had earlier, during her own submissions, made various “baseless claims” and repeatedly objected to “what she described as interruptions from the court”.

 

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