The New Scheme is optional for employers at the moment, but it is hoped by the UAE government that it will be taken up by many employers in the coming months and years.

Horizons & Co are proud to have been instructed on the first nullification case of the new arbitration law in Abu Dhabi.

The UAE pledged, within Federal Law No.29 of 2006 concerning the Rights of People of Determination, that they would secure equality for those with special needs through non-discrimination policies.

The extradition shall be enforced only after the extradition order has been finalised.

When did you last have your Starbucks Coffee, was it here in Dubai or back home? During a trip to Jordan this year I enjoyed my daily cup of coffee at the Amman Starbucks close to my parents' house.

In the recent past there have been steps towards this change of approach.

LIBOR is a benchmark interest rate in which a panel of the world's major banks charge one another for short term loans.

During the era prior to the famous "Westphalian Peace Treaties" in 1648, law was not as it is now where it has to be state-made in order to be or account as law.

Since the 2007 - 2009 financial crisis, the talk and lengthy discussions about systemic risks and its implication on the stability of the global financial system has not ceased.

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