The Trinidad and Tobago government has moved to take the case involving businessman Dominic Hadeed and his wife, Genevieve Hadeed, to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, seeking an expedited hearing on the Court of Appeal's decision ordering their release under house arrest. The application comes after the Court of Appeal ruled that the couple should be released from prison subject to strict conditions, including electronic monitoring, while their legal challenge continues. A subsequent late-night application by the State resulted in a stay of that release order pending further proceedings.

The Hadeeds have been detained under Preventive Detention Orders issued during Trinidad and Tobago's ongoing State of Emergency. The Court of Appeal found that the State had not provided sufficient grounds to justify their continued detention for the remainder of the emergency period, which is scheduled to end in mid-September. The judges noted that allegations of a conspiracy to kill senior government officials required specific particulars and that merely having the means to carry out such a conspiracy was not sufficient to justify preventive detention.