On 20 December 2023, the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry announced that the Abu Dhabi Commercial Conciliation and Arbitration Centre...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ("KSA") has announced sweeping legislative reforms in a bid to increase the efficiency of its judicial institutions...

On Friday 11 September 2020 it was announced in a joint statement released by the Kingdom of Bahrain, the United States and Israel, that the Kingdom of Bahrain would ...

The MR is effective immediately and until such time as the Government's precautionary measures are removed.

The UAE Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation ("MOHRE") published a Ministerial Resolution on 29 March 2020, ("MR") regulating remote working...

Employees from over 100 exchange houses in the UAE will be given training in an attempt to reduce financial crimes in the banking sector.

The main window for response to the Government's consultation paper on the reform of the Human Rights Act 1998 ("HRA") has now closed.

Fraud of CEO of private jet firm against Dubai-based gift company...

As we recently published here, the Dubai International Financial Centre ("DIFC") has announced plans to replace its end of service gratuity ("ESG")...

At the FIDIC International Contract Users Conference in London late last year, the pre-release of FIDIC's Yellow Book was revealed, with the objective of it being officially released late in 2017.

On Friday 23 October 2020, Abdalla Hamdok, the Prime Minister of Sudan, along with Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of Sudan's sovereign council, entered into an agreement with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

On Thursday 13 August 2020, the United Arab Emirates ("UAE") and Israel reached a landmark agreement: the two nations agreed to normalise diplomatic relations for the first time.

On 22 March 2024, the highest court of the Dubai International Financial Centre (‘DIFC') rejected an appeal, ruling that a provisional award issued by a foreign...

The General Assembly of the Dubai Court of Cassation has recently issued a judgment in its Decision No. 10 of 2023 (the "2023 Decision"), in which it considered the legal principles...

On 31 January 2022, the UAE's finance ministry announced federal corporate income tax (CIT) will be introduced in a major shift for the Middle Eastern state.

The technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sector is steadily and robustly growing globally. Given the social and economic significance of this sector...

The UAE Cabinet has approved the establishment of the Executive Office of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism to oversee the implementation of the...

In the past, Qatar's application of the New York Convention has been somewhat unpredictable.

In R (Miller) v The Prime Minister; Cherry and ors v Advocate General for Scotland [2019] UKSC 41, the Supreme Court found that the Prime Minister's advice to Her Majesty to prorogue...

The new DIFC Data Protection Law (No. 5 of 2020) (the "DPL") and Data Protection Regulations (the "Regulation") came into force on 1 July 2020...