Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing the State will now have to con­sid­er the fu­ture of their ap­peal over a de­ci­sion by three Court of Ap­peal mem­bers to or­der that busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve be placed un­der house ar­rest, af­ter Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) against them were lift­ed by Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der yes­ter­day.

Alexan­der’s de­ci­sion in re­la­tion to the cou­ple came hours af­ter the Privy Coun­cil in­di­cat­ed that it could not fa­cil­i­tate a chal­lenge to the Ap­peal Court’s rul­ing on their in­ter­im re­lief be­fore it (the court) goes on its an­nu­al va­ca­tion pe­ri­od next Fri­day.

The cou­ple then re­ceived pos­i­tive news yes­ter­day morn­ing, as the Ap­peal Court or­dered that their sub­stan­tive case, al­leg­ing that they are be­ing tar­get­ed by the State based on their eth­nic­i­ty and a le­gal chal­lenge over a move to ter­mi­nate their leas­es for State land, will be heard ex­pe­di­tious­ly by a High Court judge.