Overview
- The appeals meeting over his 2023 dismissal went ahead and concluded, with his family saying officers escorted him out and returned him to Castlerea Prison.
- The session proceeded after a High Court judge declined to grant an injunction and issued an order to bring him from custody to the hearing.
- His family says he objected to the presence of the school’s lawyers at what he argued should be an informal, non-legal forum, and he was removed after the panel declined to direct the lawyers to leave.
- The Disciplinary Appeals Panel is reviewing whether Wilson’s Hospital School was correct to dismiss him for gross misconduct following a dispute over using a student’s new name and pronoun.
- A separate appeal on the legality of his earlier suspension is before the Court of Appeal with judgment reserved, and any panel decision could face further court review, according to submissions in the High Court.