ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) – The Dominica Football Association (DFA) says it would prefer an out-of-court settlement in its legal dispute with its former president Patrick John.

John has filed a law suit against the DFA and its president Glen Etienne for salaries, allowances and other benefits totalling more than EC$100 000 for the period 2013-2015.
Etienne says the Association’s legal team is currently dealing with the matter and a defence has already been submitted.
“The DFA would like to handle it out of court; if we don’t have any choice then we will have to go to court,” Etienne told a press conference in Roseau.
“It’s not something we want to do, we would rather want to deal with it out of the court angle so I am hoping that it can be solved in that aspect you know.”
John was banned by the FIFA disciplinary committee for two years in 2011.
The two-year ban also included an EC$300 000 fine and was part of a final round of sanctions for Caribbean officials caught in a cash-for-votes scandal.
FIFA had initially charged John for accepting US$40 000 in cash from bin Hammam to support him in an election campaign against president Sepp Blatter.
A DFA conference, in following the FIFA ban, voted to suspend him for the remainder of his term of office which would have ended in 2015.