A group of lawyers in Dominica who brand themselves as “Committee of concerned lawyers” have written to chief justice Dame Janice Pereira about the ongoing saga about who should hear the election petition case filed by the opposition United Workers Party (UWP).
The lawyers are questioning the decision of attorney general Levi Peter who asked that Dominican born resident judge Wynante Adrien-Roberts not be assigned to hear the election petition after justice Bernie Stephenson recused herself.
The UWP filed its election petition after the December 2019 general elections and its political leader Lennox Linton has stated that he does not want justice, Bernie Stephenson, to hear the matter describing her as “unfair and bias” towards his party.
Besides Linton’s UWP, Loftus Durand who is part of a pressure group Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM) had also written to the Chief Justice requesting that she assign a new judge to hear the matter.
The matter has since been assigned to Justice Eddy Ventose resident judge in St. Kitts
See letter
https://natureisle.news/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Lawyers-write-Chief-Justice.pdf