Da­reece Po­lo

Op­po­si­tion MP Camille Robin­son-Reg­is is ques­tion­ing Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to re­tain Unit­ed King­dom bar­ris­ters in the le­gal pro­ceed­ings in­volv­ing Do­minic and Genevieve Hadeed be­fore any crim­i­nal charges have been laid, while a se­nior at­tor­ney has de­fend­ed the move as rou­tine in com­plex cas­es re­quir­ing spe­cial­ist ex­per­tise.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia over the week­end, Robin­son-Reg­is said while gov­ern­ments have long en­gaged for­eign lawyers when spe­cialised knowl­edge is need­ed, the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the Hadeed case were “ex­treme­ly strange.”