Busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve have lost their ini­tial at­tempt to have their con­sti­tu­tion­al law­suit against the Gov­ern­ment ex­pe­dit­ed.

High Court Judge Vigel Paul dis­missed the cou­ple’s ap­pli­ca­tion, which was large­ly based on claims that Hadeed’s health was de­te­ri­o­rat­ing while he and his wife re­main de­tained in prison over an al­leged plot to as­sas­si­nate Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.

The cou­ple’s lawyers, led by Se­nior Coun­sel Dou­glas Mendes, ar­gued that the mat­ter re­quired ur­gent hear­ing be­cause of Hadeed’s med­ical con­di­tion. How­ev­er, Jus­tice Paul up­held ob­jec­tions from at­tor­ney Ger­ald Ramdeen over ev­i­dence pro­vid­ed by Hadeed’s doc­tor, Jacque­line Pereira-Sab­ga.