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Chancellor Meets Red Thread Delegation on the Fatima Martin Case

Feb 20, 2014 News

Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Carl Singh, yesterday afternoon met with a two-person delegation on the case of a teenage Amerindian babysitter jailed by Magistrate Sueanna Lovell for assaulting the child of Magistrate Geeta Chandan and her attorney husband, Joel Edmons.
Representing Fatima Martin were social activist and newspaper columnist, Freddie Kissoon and Joy Marcus of the women rights group, Red Thread. They were part of a picket-protest outside the Court of Appeal and requested to meet with the Chancellor. Justice Singh agreed to see them.
The delegation informed the Chancellor that it was concerned that the police investigation and the conclusion of the court case took a mere two days.
On the question of whether the sentence should have been the full penalty in the light that the accused did not waste the court’s time and pleaded guilty, the Chancellor said that it is the convention in the judicial system that in such circumstances the courts are normally reasonable and do not assign the maximum penalty.
However, Justice Singh that he cannot reduce the sentence because that is outside his legal remit and only can be secured through the appellate process. He informed Mr. Kissoon and Ms. Marcus that he would order an investigation into the entire affair and that he would be writing as a matter of urgency, the Commissioner of Police to ascertain the claim of the accused that she was beaten by Magistrate Chandan.
The Chancellor said that he just knows what he read about the beating and would ask the Commissioner to investigate since Ms. Martin said she was assaulted in front of two police ranks, one being a senior officer.
He assured the delegation that if the police investigation reveals that a Magistrate struck an accused person then a hearing will have to be done into the affair.
Kissoon and Marcus subsequently informed the press that the next stage is the request to have Magistrate Lovell and Chandan be removed from the bench. To this end, a daily picket is planned outside the Sparendaam court where Ms. Lovell is presiding.
The picket begins today at 10.00 am.

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