Insight Category: Reports
Want to know your rights as a renter and tenant in Dubai? What landlords can and can’t do? In the dark about your nextmove? Hazem Balbaa provides for tenants renting in Dubai. What’s the most common issue people are having right now? Arbitrary rent increases; and eviction by landlords seeking higher rents given the improving… Continue reading Renting in Dubai? Here are your rights as a tenant...
The BSA Insurance team have authored the UAE Chapter of the Chambers & Partners Insurance Litigation 2021 guide. The guide provides the latest legal information on alternative dispute resolution (ADR), the enforcement of foreign judgments, the applicability of the New York Convention, coverage disputes, claims against insureds, insurers’ recovery rights, and the impact of COVID-19… Continue reading Chambers & Partners: UAE Insurance Litigation 2021...
The following article was originally published for BSA in the Oath Magazineand can be downloaded here:UAE Health Data Law. Healthcare data, and information, and its development in terms of how this data/information is protected, is a fast-evolving growth area, challenging both industry and consumers alike in the United Arab Emirates, i.e., where does one start… Continue reading The New UAE Health Data Law – an In-Depth Look...
Written byAntonios Dimitracopoulosfor MEP Middle East The often-dreaded pay-when-paid clause in subcontracts has deterred many from pursuing what is an otherwise legitimate claim. The common concern has always been that a defence would almost certainly be raised by the main contractor that no corresponding payment has been made by the employer and, as such, the… Continue reading Pay-when-paid clause can be defeated...
The end of the GCC Patent: what next? Partner & Head of Intellectual Property Munir Suboh and Associate Felicity Hammond provide an overview of the discontinuation of the GCC patent, for The Patent Lawyer Magazine, which includes a breakdown of the standard national application requirements now in play for the GCC countries. On 5 January 2021,… Continue reading The end of the GCC Patent: what next?...
The worldwide economic distress caused by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has certainly not spared the GCC region. The pandemic has exacerbated the region’s pre-existing economic challenges, many of which date from the prior distresses that occurred ten years ago and were never fully remediated. This has led to a knock-on effect whereby many corporate interests… Continue reading GCC Restructuring & Insolvency Report...
Originally published as a Country Specific Q&A on Legal 500, Partner, Abdullah Ishnanehprovides an overview of litigation laws and regulations applicable in UAE, answering such questions as: What are the main methods of resolving commercial disputes? The main method of resolving commercial disputes is litigation before the local courts. However, there are other means of… Continue reading Legal 500: UAE Litigation Chapter 2021...
The following article was originally published in Climate Control Middle East. The FIDIC suite of construction contracts is written and published by the International Federation of Consulting Engineers. The FIDIC acronym stands for the French version of the Federation’s name (Federation Internationale des Ingenieurs-Conseil). FIDIC’s Contracts Committee produces standard forms of contract for civil engineering… Continue reading What FIDIC’s New Green Book Holds...
In the following article, originally published in The Oath Magazine, Rima Mrad and Bradley Moran offer a comparison of the Foundations in the ADGM, DIFC & RAK ICC – the formation, key features and differences. Foundations are a form of hybrid entity similar to both a private company and a trust structure. Combining the mechanisms… Continue reading The UAE’s Foundations Regimes...