{"id":652557,"date":"2026-10-12T15:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T15:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/652557\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T15:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T15:46:08","slug":"ammi-burke-to-blame-for-damage-to-her-reputation-since-arthur-cox-dismissal-court-told-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/652557\/","title":{"rendered":"Ammi Burke to blame for damage to her reputation since Arthur Cox dismissal, court told \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Solicitor Ammi Burke<\/a> has only herself to blame for the damage to her reputation since her dismissal from one of Ireland\u2019s leading law firms, the Labour Court has been told.<\/p>\n

Burke from Castlebar, Co Mayo<\/a>, was dismissed by Arthur Cox Solicitors of Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, in November 2019 and is now on her third challenge to that dismissal. <\/p>\n

She had previously taken cases against her dismissal at the Workplace Relations Commission<\/a> (WRC) and there were two judicial reviews arising out of those. <\/p>\n

She has now begun the case against her dismissal to the Labour Court<\/a>, which is the appeal court for the WRC. <\/p>\n

Peter Ward SC, on behalf of Arthur Cox Solicitors, said Burke had attempted to tie up her former employee in litigation for many years and had disrupted several hearings. <\/p>\n

She had been given a \u201cgenerous\u201d ex gratia payment of \u20ac70,000, a year\u2019s salary, when she was dismissed.<\/p>\n

Senior partners in Arthur Cox had attempted to resolve the issue by helping her get a new position in a different firm following her dismissal. <\/p>\n

Had she taken that that route, there would have been no damage to her professional reputation. Instead, she took a course that \u201ccould not have been more damaging to herself\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe course she and her family took couldn\u2019t have brought more publicity on herself,\u201d Ward said. <\/p>\n

The damage to Burke\u2019s reputation was entirely her own fault and not that of Arthur Cox, he suggested. <\/p>\n

Her family had picketed outside Arthur Cox offices, engaged in protracted litigation and had made \u201cextremely false and damaging\u201d allegations against the firm. <\/p>\n

He said her behaviour in court had been \u201cunprecedented\u201d and \u201coutrageous\u201d. He cited a judgment by the Court of Appeal in 2024 by Judge Seamus Noonan who described her behaviour at the High Court in the Court of Appeal as \u201cutterly appalling and egregious\u201d. <\/p>\n

Ward said Burke\u2019s disruptive behaviour in court was an \u201caffront to the rule of law\u201d. It would be \u201cabsurd\u201d and \u201centirely unreasonable\u201d for Arthur Cox Solicitors to take her back. <\/p>\n

A simple Google search for Ammi Burke and Arthur Cox Solictors showed the evidence of her and family\u2019s attempt to undermine the credibility of the firm. <\/p>\n

Ward told the Labour Court that Burke\u2019s dismissal was down to her \u201cpoor judgement, interpersonal interactions and her attitudes towards her colleagues\u201d. <\/p>\n

She had exhibited behaviour \u201centirely below the standard of a team-playing colleague\u201d. <\/p>\n

She exhibited a \u201csuperiority complex\u201d and was condescending towards colleagues. <\/p>\n

Burke began as a trainee solicitor with the firm in May 2016 and became a solicitor with the banking practice group in November 2018 on a salary of \u20ac70,000 per year. <\/p>\n

Burke told the court that she was dismissed without warning and without cause on November 12th, 2019. <\/p>\n

Before that she claimed to have had an \u201cunblemished\u201d record and was noted for her work ethic and her status as a team player. <\/p>\n

She recalled that when she was told she was being dismissed, her HR director told her that it was a no fault dismissal and she had done nothing wrong. <\/p>\n

Her dismissal had been \u201cprocedurally unfair\u201d and in complete contravention of the employment practices of Arthur Cox. There was a \u201ccomplete absence\u201d of documentary evidence backing up her dismissal, she told the Labour Court. <\/p>\n

Her dismissal had a \u201cdevastating\u201d impact on her ability to find alternative employment as a solicitor. <\/p>\n

In such circumstances, the only just remedy would be her reinstatement. The hearing continues. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Solicitor Ammi Burke has only herself to blame for the damage to her reputation since her dismissal from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[86615,72,61,60,42042,8764,6465],"class_list":["post-652557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ammi-burke","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-labour-court","tag-mayo","tag-workplace-relations-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}