SoE tribunal recommends Dominic Hadeed’s release from jail

The State of Emer­gency (SoE) tri­bunal re­view­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed’s Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) has rec­om­mend­ed that he be re­leased from cus­tody, find­ing that his con­tin­ued de­ten­tion was not nec­es­sary or ex­pe­di­ent in the pub­lic in­ter­est, ac­cord­ing to ap­peal doc­u­ments filed be­fore the Ju­di­cial Com­mit­tee of the Privy Coun­cil.

The dis­clo­sure was made in an “In­for­ma­tion About the Ap­peal” doc­u­ment filed by the ap­pel­lants, the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, the Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty, the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and Po­lice Con­sta­ble El­don Cal­liste No 16601, in their ap­peal against de­ci­sions aris­ing from pro­ceed­ings in the Court of Ap­peal of Trinidad and To­ba­go. The doc­u­ment states that the SOE tri­bunal re­ceived writ­ten sub­mis­sions on be­half of Hadeed on Ju­ly 9 and heard oral sub­mis­sions at a hear­ing on Ju­ly 10.

The ap­peal, filed as JCPC/2026/0066, was is­sued on Ju­ly 21, 2026, and lists Do­minic Hadeed and Genevieve Hadeed as re­spon­dents.