{"id":251475,"date":"2020-06-23T13:49:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T17:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=251475"},"modified":"2020-06-23T13:50:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T17:50:33","slug":"justice-eddy-ventose-recuses-himself-from-dominica-elections-petitions-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/justice-eddy-ventose-recuses-himself-from-dominica-elections-petitions-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Eddy Ventose recuses himself from Dominica elections petitions matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_251332\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251332\" style=\"width: 473px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-251332\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/eddy-ventose.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/eddy-ventose.jpg 473w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/eddy-ventose-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-251332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Eddy Ventose. Photo credit: St. Lucia Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The controversy surrounding the appointment of a judge to hear the 2019 election petitions filed by the opposition United Workers Party (UWP) has taken yet another twist.<\/p>\n<p>Less than one week after giving directions to the lawyers involved in the case, Justice Eddy Ventose has recused himself from the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, lawyers for the petitioners and the respondents appeared via Zoom before the St. Kitts-based high court judge to whom the matter was assigned by the Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, Janice Perreira.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Ventose was given the assignment after resident judge Bernie Stephenson had recused herself and Attorney General, Levi Peter, had written to the Chief Justice asking that Dominican-born resident judge, Wynante Adrien Roberts, not be assigned to do that matter because she had previously worked in the public service as Solicitor General.<\/p>\n<p>However, after giving directions and setting July 7, 2020, as the date to hear applications from the lawyers, concerns were raised by some lawyers and members of the public who argued that Justice Ventose ought not to hear the matter since, less than two years ago, he worked in the office of the attorney general in Dominica as a legal advisor.<\/p>\n<p>A group of lawyers who branded themselves as \u201cconcerned lawyers\u201d have written to the Chief Justice objecting to the suggestion by Peters that Justice Adrien-Roberts would be unsuitable to preside because she \u201cwould be familiar with persons who are interested in these petitions and applications to strike\u201d, a move they say, is not dissimilar in intent, from the \u201csurreptitious maneuvering\u201d that he accused the opposition of doing in respect of Justice Stephenson.<\/p>\n<p>On the issue of Justice Ventose working in the office of AG as an advisor, Astaphan SC said that he did work with the attorney general\u2019s chambers in Dominica three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was not at the case management conference and don\u2019t know if he said anything about it. But I asked the AG about that and based on what he said to me I did not think there was a basis for any recusal I don\u2019t know his reasons why,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said given advice in a professional capacity to a government 3-4 years ago cannot affect the impartiality of the judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The controversy surrounding the appointment of a judge to hear the 2019 election petitions filed by the opposition United Workers Party (UWP) has taken yet another twist. 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