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A roundup of the 50 most crucial additions, amendments, and deletions to the Civil Procedures Law No. 11 of 1992 that were promulgated pursuant to Cabinet Decision No. 57 of 2018 that came into effect in early 2019: 1. Approving the designation of execution officers instead of representatives and adding the possibility of execution by

Scene You are a services or goods provider registered as a taxpayer with the Federal Tax Authority. You are facing liquidity and cash flow difficulties. You have customers; you have issued tax invoices, but your invoices are unpaid. In consequence, due to liquidity issues, you are late in paying your due taxes. A few weeks

  Since around September 2020, the tax dispute resolution committee of the Emirate of Dubai has been inoperable (under reformation). Objections that have been filed since then with the Dubai tax dispute resolution committee had not been decided on. On 25 November 2020, the UAE Minister of Justice issued Ministerial Decree No. 691/2020 on the

Enforcement is an issue that frequently arises with plaintiffs in the United Arab Emirates. The difficulties are multi-fold; lack of follow-up by counsel; aggressive asset transfer and concealment by the defendant (i.e. such as real estate transfer to a spouse); queuing behind prior creditors whom have already issued attachment orders on assets; but one crucial

With the disruption to global business and trade due to the Coronavirus pandemic, parties may look to argue hardship events under the law to alleviate extraneous obligations (such as an extraneous increase of cost in concluding the obligation). Hardship events are occurrences that result in changing the equilibrium of a contract creating an extreme burden

The ability to influence has been a topic of dialectics for centuries – how the influence was obtained, how it was used, how much of it was at stake. When the topic of influence comes up, we may refer to great writers, composers, or philosophers. But these days the discussion of influence brings about names

  The Court of Arbitration for Sport (“CAS”) is based in Switzerland and is considered the elite international dispute resolution forum for legal disputes relating to sports, including commercial disputes (i.e., issues arising from sponsorship agreements or player contracts) and discipline (i.e., doping, non-compliance with codes of conduct). CAS also acts as an appeals court