Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife, Genevieve, are ques­tion­ing whether they were be­ing in­ves­ti­gat­ed un­der Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions for the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) be­fore be­ing is­sued with Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) on Sat­ur­day.

The is­sue arose as a habeas cor­pus writ chal­leng­ing the pro­tract­ed de­ten­tion came up for a vir­tu­al hear­ing be­fore Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad a short while ago.

Pre­sent­ing sub­mis­sions, Se­nior Coun­sel Dou­glas Mendes, who is lead­ing the cou­ple's le­gal team, claimed that his clients be­lieved they were be­ing sub­ject­ed to a typ­i­cal or "run-of-the-mill" po­lice probe and were not prop­er­ly in­formed that their ex­tend­ed de­ten­tion was un­der the reg­u­la­tions be­fore the PDOs were is­sued.