Dubai Arbitration Week 2024: Shaping the Future
Dubai Arbitration Week (DAW) is an annual event that brings the UAE’s vibrant arbitration community together with leading global practitioners including arbitrators, lawyers, and experts. Through engaging discussions and debates, DAW highlights the pivotal role in shaping the future of arbitration in UAE and the broader Middle East. It highlights the central role of arbitration […]
Understanding Arbitration in the UAE: An Overview
Parties increasingly agree to refer contractual disputes to arbitration for resolution. Arbitration clauses are particularly common in construction, real estate and commercial agreements where effective, efficient, and confidential means of dispute resolution are in the interests of both parties. Arbitration is a prominent method of dispute resolution in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This brief […]
Arbitration Law Firms (III)
To ensure a fair arbitration process, arbitrators must be impartial and independent. Usually, the contract between the parties governing the arbitration will set out the process to be followed in selecting and appointing arbitrators either specifically or by reference to the procedures of an arbitral institution. In the absence of such direction, the appointment process will followapplicable law or […]
DIAC Arbitration
Arbitrations in the UAE are governed by Federal Law 6 of 2018 on Arbitration (the ‘Arbitration Law’) which is based on the UNCITRAL Model Arbitration Law. The Arbitration Law applies to all onshore arbitration proceedings in any Emirate including arbitrations under the rules of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (the ‘DIAC’) in Dubai – but […]
Arbitration Law Firms (II)
Parties to an arbitration do not generally need to be legally represented. Most national arbitration laws and the rules of most arbitration institutions allow parties to choose whether they wish to represent themselves or whether they wish to be represented by external third parties – whether or not these are legally qualified. The UAE and […]
Arbitration Law Firms (I)
Arbitration law firms (in the sense of being independent law firms offering only arbitration advice) are relatively rare in Dubai and Abu Dhabi – at least to date. The UAE as a whole is home to a growing legal sector with a range of international, regional and local firms active across the full spectrum of […]
Arbitration in Abu Dhabi
Arbitration in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates The MENA region has a long cultural and religious tradition of shura (Arabic: شُورَىٰ, shūrā). Shura can broadly be understood as a shared belief in the desirability of determining common affairs in consultation with those who will be affected by the decision. Traditionally, decisions of common interest in the region […]
Arbitration in Dubai
Arbitration in Dubai, United Arab Emirates The MENA region has a long cultural and religious tradition of referring disputes to a respected third party in order to reach an informal resolution. It is therefore perhaps surprising that until relatively recently, formal alternative dispute resolution processes such as mediation and arbitration in Dubai and elsewhere were […]
