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Herbert Volney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Former High Court Judge and Justice Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Herbert Volney has died, according to information reaching Dominica News Online.<\/p>\n

The exact cause of his death is unknown at this time however, messages of his passing and condolences began appearing on social media on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

Volney was the third of eight children born to Dominican Rosalind Volney and her St. Lucian husband, Cyril Volney.<\/p>\n

He was born on June 8, 1953 in Plymouth, Montserrat.<\/p>\n

He went to primary schools in Antigua, Barbados, St. Kitts and Dominica.<\/p>\n

He attended high school at the St Mary’s Academy in Dominica and then went on to study at the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies.<\/p>\n

Volney settled in Trinidad and Tobago after completing his law studies in 1978.<\/p>\n

He had a choice of coming to Dominica to be part of a political movement led by former prime minister, the now deceased Mary Eugenia Charles, or getting married and settling in Trinidad.<\/p>\n

He chose the latter and took up a position at the Office of Public Prosecution, where he took on many high profile cases.<\/p>\n

Upon his retirement as Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions, he worked in the law chambers of Karl Hudson-Phillips, QC.<\/p>\n

Volney opened his own private law office in 1991.<\/p>\n

In 1994 he was recruited by Chief Justice Clinton Bernard and appointed a judge of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

He retired from the judiciary in April 28, 2010, to contest the constituency of St Joseph in the general election of that year on a United National Congress (UNC) ticket.<\/p>\n

Volney won and was appointed Minister of Justice on May 28, 2010 in the cabinet of then prime minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar.<\/p>\n

In September 2012, he was among 11 ministers dismissed by the government and was criticized at the time by Persad-Bissessar for having reportedly misled the Cabinet over the early proclamation of Section 34 of the Administration of Justice (Indictable Offences) Act.<\/p>\n

He was vindicated when British Queen’s Counsel Edward Fitzgerald argued, during a hearing in the High Court in January 2013, that Volney did not mislead his Cabinet colleagues.<\/p>\n

Volney subsequently appeared with Persad-Bissessar at a public UNC event in May 2013.<\/p>\n

On several occasions, Volney had dipped his fingers in the politics of Dominica.<\/p>\n

In a Facebook post in June, 2016, Volney said he was appalled by the proceedings in the House of Assembly in Dominica saying parliamentary democracy is under threat due to the \u201cdictatorship\u201d of the then Speaker of the House, Alix Boyd-Knights.<\/p>\n

He also on several occasions, addressed Dominica Labour Party (DLP) conventions here as a guest speaker.<\/p>\n

He drew criticism, when during one of those conventions on May 6, 2017, he described Dominicans in the diaspora who criticized the DLP as “wicked,” urging Dominicans on the island “to sort them out.”<\/p>\n

At that same convention he called on Dominica to legalize Marijuana and prime minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, said that he would be leaning heavily on the experience of Volney in the shaping of a new Dominica.<\/p>\n

\u201cHerbert Volney, I am sure you would agree, is a man, who still has a significant contribution to make to the social development of our Caribbean, and I for one, intend to lean very heavily on his vast knowledge and experience in the shaping and emergence of the new Dominica,\u201d Skerrit stated at that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former High Court Judge and Justice Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Herbert Volney has died, according to information reaching Dominica News Online. 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