{"id":45823,"date":"2011-10-10T18:17:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T22:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=45823"},"modified":"2011-10-10T18:28:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T22:28:57","slug":"sir-brian-has-a-perverted-perspective-senior-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/sir-brian-has-a-perverted-perspective-senior-counsel\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Brian has a perverted perspective &#8211; Senior Counsel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_45346\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45346\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45346\" title=\"astaphan1\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/astaphan1-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"226\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Astaphan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Senior Counsel Anthony Astaphan has responded to an article written by Sir Brian Alleyne which describes as ironic the fact that Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerritt and Education Minister Petter St Jean sought protection from self-incrimination during their recently concluded election petition court matter.<\/p>\n<p>In the item, which appeared in The Chronicle newspaper, Alleyne said, \u201cThe irony is that a person who has sworn a solemn oath to uphold and protect the laws and the constitution of Dominica should find himself placed in a position of having to resort to the protection against self-incrimination, especially in relation to the very oath he has sworn to, uphold and protect the laws and constitution of Dominica.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Astaphan has responded to Alleyne\u2019s statements saying that the former Chief Justice has presented a \u201cperverted perspective&#8221; in his examination of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI think the article by Sir Brian is a rather perverted perspective of what actually transpired and more so a perverted perspective of the application of the principles of self incrimination within the context of the election petition. He seems to have forgotten the very same lawyer who represented the UWP, Mr. Mendes, made the same argument successfully in order to keep Baldwin Spencer, the Prime Minister of Antigua, out of the matter in Antigua and Barbuda and the court held as a matter of principle that it ought not to have jurisdiction to compel any respondent to give any evidence which might, may or possibly lead to his prosecution or incrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cSo, all we did was apply a single, solitary, small part of our case, a principle of law that is well established in our election law and the application of the election law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also pointed out that the requests for protection from self-incrimination was only a small part of the case that they presented and the bigger part of their presentation was the contention that there was a lack of evidence before the court and that the burden of proof had scarcely been met.<\/p>\n<p>Astaphan\u00a0 remarked, \u201cThe second point I want to make, as a matter of fact, we never argued that if the Prime Minister give evidence he will incriminate himself. We said that as a matter of the exercising of her discretion, the judge ought to consider whether there was a risk of prosecution and self-incrimination but the significant part of our case had nothing to do with self-incrimination but an application of the basic principles of burden of proof, standard of proof, whether or not there was evidence of French law which showed the Prime Minister or St Jean, by their own act, committed any act which could lead to their disqualification, by their own hands, under the provisions of the Constitution. And our case was that there was no such evidence before the court. That was the primary and the fundamental focus of our case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cSo I don\u2019t know what is troubling Sir Brian, once again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior Counsel Anthony Astaphan has responded to an article written by Sir Brian Alleyne which describes as ironic the fact that Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerritt and Education Minister Petter St Jean sought protection from self-incrimination during their recently concluded election&#8230;","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sir Brian has a perverted perspective - Senior Counsel - Dominica News Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/sir-brian-has-a-perverted-perspective-senior-counsel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sir Brian has a perverted perspective - Senior Counsel - Dominica News Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Senior Counsel Anthony Astaphan has responded to an article written by Sir Brian Alleyne which describes as ironic the fact that Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerritt and Education Minister Petter St Jean sought protection from self-incrimination during their recently concluded election...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/sir-brian-has-a-perverted-perspective-senior-counsel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dominica News Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-10-10T22:17:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-10-10T22:28:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/astaphan1-e1678909112698.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"358\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"197\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/sir-brian-has-a-perverted-perspective-senior-counsel\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/sir-brian-has-a-perverted-perspective-senior-counsel\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1cf13c57fb23f5f3f17888628ce87bed\"},\"headline\":\"Sir Brian has a perverted perspective &#8211; 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