Two UK bar­ris­ters were ad­mit­ted to prac­tise law in Trinidad and To­ba­go to rep­re­sent the State in pro­ceed­ings in­volv­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife, Genevieve, as the cou­ple con­tin­ues chal­leng­ing their de­ten­tion un­der the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency.

Two Le­gal No­tices pub­lished Tues­day grant Sir James Ray­mond Ead­ie and Mr Robert Stephen Strang el­i­gi­bil­i­ty to ap­pear in the mat­ter.

The Le­gal Pro­fes­sion (El­i­gi­bil­i­ty for Ad­mis­sion) (No. 9) Or­der, 2026 and (No. 10) Or­der, 2026, signed by At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie af­ter con­sul­ta­tion with the Chief Jus­tice, al­low the two bar­ris­ters, both mem­bers of the Ho­n­ourable So­ci­ety of the Mid­dle Tem­ple, to ap­pear in the pro­ceed­ings.