Perjury In UAE: Can A Defendant Get Away By Using Double Negative?

Perjury can be defined as an intentional act of lying, withholding the truth, administering false testimony, swearing or any act done with the intent of deception or misleading the legal system or process. An underlying criminal intent or object is mandatory to establish an act of perjury. To constitute perjury the person making a statement / submission must have knowledge of the fact that he is making a false statement and or believes what he is stating is not true.

The UAE laws regarding Perjury are contained in multiple section of the Federal law no. 3 of 1987 promulgating the penal code and its amendments(‘Penal Code'),

Article 253:

Shall be subject to a jail sentence for a minimum period of three months, whoever gives a false testimony before a judicial authority or a competent organization having jurisdiction to hear witnesses after oath, denies the truth, or keeps silent about all or part of the relevant facts of the case known to him, regardless of