{"id":353671,"date":"2025-12-12T09:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=353671"},"modified":"2025-12-12T09:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:47:12","slug":"dr-fontaine-faces-24th-adjournment-in-ongoing-legal-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/homepage-carousel\/dr-fontaine-faces-24th-adjournment-in-ongoing-legal-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Fontaine faces 24th adjournment in ongoing legal matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_353672\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-353672\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-353672\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dr.-Thomson-Fontaine-642x340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"339\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-353672\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Thomson Fontaine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A long-running court matter against Leader of the United Workers Party (UWP), Dr. Thomson Fontaine, has been adjourned for the 24th time.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-year-old matter against Dr. Fontaine stemmed from an incident that dates back to February 7, 2017. On that day, the United Workers Party (UWP), which was the parliamentary opposition at the time, held a meeting on Kennedy Avenue in Roseau calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit. Following this, various businesses were vandalized in the capital city. Several opposition members were subsequently charged with inciting violence and obstructing justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy matter has been adjourned until April of next year,\u201d he said while standing outside of the magistrate\u2019s court on Thursday morning. \u201cAnother delay of several months. I showed up this morning in the rain, but that\u2019s it, that\u2019s the system.\u00a0We will be back in court in April.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cthe struggle continues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following Thursday\u2019s adjournment, Dr. Fontaine explained further during a Facebook video that the two charges against him went to the magistrate\u2019s court, where a determination would be made as to whether there was enough evidence from the government to send that case to the high court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat took several years, I was out of the country at the time,\u201d He explained. \u201cI found out that the case was going on. I informed the court that I was coming back to Dominica. They sent police officers to the airport, where I was arrested on arrival back in Dominica.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On April 23, 2022, Dr. Fontaine was arrested at the Douglas Charles airport upon arrival in Dominica, on a bench warrant issued by former Magistrate Asquith Riviere on November 22, 2018, following his failure to appear at two court hearings. He later appeared in court on April 29, where bail was granted to him, and on May 9, the court granted a variation of bail giving him permission to travel to South Sudan, where he is currently employed as the Policy Advisor to that government.<\/p>\n<p>One year later, on April 28, 2023, the Preliminary Inquiry into the case against Dr. Fontaine commenced. The prosecutor, Trinidadian attorney Queen\u2019s Counsel, Israel Khan, assisted by his son Daniel Khan, informed the court of their intent to proceed with the case by way of paper committal. Consequently, during the committal process, the witnesses\u2019 statements and documentary evidence were tendered to the Court without the witnesses having to testify at the Preliminary Inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Fontaine appeared before Magistrate Laudat, and eventually the said magistrate decided that there was enough evidence, though paper committal, to send the case to the High Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what he did at the time was to maintain the charge of obstruction in the magistrate\u2019s court and then to send the charge of riotous behaviour to the high court,\u201d he stated. \u201cThat happened a couple years ago, but when it got to the high court, it moved relatively quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cSo the high court quickly heard the case. We immediately put in for a no-case submission, which was accepted by the high court, that I had absolutely no case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Dr. Fontaine pointed out that the judge prevented his arraignment as well as the charge being read to him.<\/p>\n<p>He said the judge was of the opinion that this particular matter was a frivolous charge, and he dismissed every single charge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe dismissed the charge against me,\u201d Dr. Fontaine revealed. \u201cAnd in his ruling, the charge indicated that the Government of Dominica was forbidden to take any further action against Dr. Fontaine on anything relating to the events of September 7, 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cSo we fully expected that covered and based on the way the judgement was written, that also covered the matter at the magistrate\u2019s court, which was ongoing under a different magistrate. That is the charge of obstruction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Fontaine went on to add that at the next hearing for the obstruction case, the order of the high court judge was taken to the magistrate.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed that the magistrate then said that this doesn\u2019t apply to him because the case number under which he was hearing Dr. Thomson&#8217;s case wasn\u2019t included in the judgement of the high court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy lawyers effectively went back to the high court asking the judge to compel the magistrate to adhere to that case in the lower court. We did that, and that is taking time to go through,\u201d Dr. Fontaine revealed. \u201c In the meantime, the magistrate is continuing to hear the case against me in the lower court, and that is the reason why I was in court today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cThe fact that we got that major victory in the high court, we fully expected that my 8-year ordeal would be over. But that has not been the case, we continue, and this morning when we appeared in court, we were told that we would have to come back in April.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A long-running court matter against Leader of the United Workers Party (UWP), Dr. Thomson Fontaine, has been adjourned for the 24th time. The eight-year-old matter against Dr. Fontaine stemmed from an incident that dates back to February 7, 2017. 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