The Courts of Justice Law 1960 gives the courts in Cyprus discretion to issue a wide variety of provisional measures.

A discussion on the ways of handling disputes in the UAE.

The vexed question of the arbitrability vel non of competition law has now reached the shores of the United Arab Emirates.

A recent ruling of the Dubai Court of First Instance questions de novo the UAE courts’ compliance with their obligations under international enforcement instruments in the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards.

Gross negligence is a civil law concept that has been imported into the common law.

A discussion on the fact that applications for strike out are being increasingly used in the civil litigation process as a means to test, at an early stage, the courts view of the merits of a claim.

Commercial disputes before the State Courts in the UAE are characterised by exchanges of written submissions with little, if any, taking of witness evidence or oral advocacy.

In Pitt v Holt, Derek Pitt was very badly injured in a road accident and his wife was his receiver appointed by the Court of Protection.