UAE legislative framework empowers courts to enforce judgments
issued by foreign courts under specific conditions. This is in
accordance with Article 21 of the Federal Law Number 11 of 1992
concerning the issuance of Civil Procedures Law (the
Civil Procedures Law) which states
that:
"The courts shall have jurisdiction to examine the
actions against the foreigner who has no residence or domicile in
the state in the following cases:
1) If he had an elected
domicile.
2) If the action is related to real estates in the
state, a citizen's heritage, or an open estate
therein.
3) If the action is concerned with an obligation
concluded, executed, or its execution was conditioned in the state
or related with a contract required to be
authenticated therein or with an incident occurred therein
or bankruptcy declared at one of its courts.
