Dominica’s Speaker of parliament on Wednesday said she felt vindicated, after a court ruled in her favour in a case brought by the opposition United Workers Party.
Following a verbal confrontation in the House in January of last year, the Speaker ordered six UWP parliamentarians suspended from the House.
They were protesting that their questions placed on the order paper had been changed by Speaker Alix Boyd-Knights.
Mrs Boyd-Knights said at the time that she’d made the changes because some parts of the questions did not conform with the Standing Orders of the House.
Justice Davidson Baptiste heard the case last June, and on Wednesday he ruled that the actions of the Speaker were in order.
Opposition leader Earl Williams said taking the parliamentary option open to the opposition MPs would have handed the governing Labour Party another victory.
He said the UWP’s case was in pursuit of natural justice.
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