Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve were yes­ter­day giv­en a day to analyse po­lice records re­lat­ed to the duo’s ar­rests and de­ten­tion for an al­leged mur­der con­spir­a­cy, to de­ter­mine whether they will pro­ceed with lit­i­ga­tion over the is­sue.

The Hadeeds’ lawyer Dou­glas Mendes, SC, re­quest­ed the ad­journ­ment as their habeas cor­pus writs came up for vir­tu­al hear­ing be­fore Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad.

At the start of the hear­ing, which was per­son­al­ly at­tend­ed by Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, Jus­tice Seep­er­sad ques­tioned whether their case chal­leng­ing their de­ten­tions be­came aca­d­e­m­ic af­ter Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is­sued Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) un­der Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions un­der the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) against them on Sat­ur­day.