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Civil, Commercial and Criminal Law
Civil law:
It is a set of legal rules that regulates private relations and the life of individuals and companies.
Commercial Law:
It is a set of legal rules that regulates business and merchants’ activities in undertaking their trade.
Criminal Law:
It is a set of objective rules that determines the crimes and punishments decreed.
Property, Construction and Rental Law
Property law:
It is the area of law that governs the various forms of ownership of real estate or land.
Construction law:
It covers a wide range of legal issues including building construction, engineering, and related fields.
Banking, Insurance and Maritime Law
Banking Law:
Is the main legal framework that regulates financial operations between banks and individuals as relating to loans, deposits and investments.
Insurance law:
Is the area of law that governs insurance policies and claims. It comprises three categories:
a) Regulations bearing upon business insurance;
b) Regulations of the content of insurance policies;
c) Regulations of claims handling.
Maritime law:
It is the branch of international law that deals with territorial and international waters, with shipping, and with offences occurring in open waters.
Family and Labor Law
Family law:
It covers all matters relating to divorce, child custody, guardianship and alimony, all based on Shari’a principles. Expatriates may apply their country’s law having attesting and translated the relevent law into Arabic.
Labor Law:
It is the set of rules that regulates the legal relationship between employer and employee, and ensures that the employee obtains all his labor rights such as end of service benefits.
Medical Malpractice and Personal Injuries Law
Medical malpractice law:
It covers medical errors, specified by the Medical Liability Law, resulting from ignorance by the doctor(s) of the technical matters, negligence, or failure to follow acknowledged professional and/or medical principles, or not taking due care of the patient.
Personal injury law:
It is a legal term for an injury to the body, mind, or emotions. The term is most commonly used in reference to a lawsuits where the litigant (the person bringing up the case) has suffered harm to his body or mind. Damages typically include: the injured person’s medical bills, compensation for pain and suffering, and a diminished quality of life.
Compensation and Intellectual Property Law
Compensatory damages in contract law:
Covers the loss that the non-breaching party has incurred as a result of a breach of contract. The award is intended to compensate, or replace, the loss(es) caused by the breach.
Intellectual property law:
It is a set of legal rules that covers contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters such as patent copyrights and trademark registration, along with how to use and protect the intellectual property concerned.
Study Of Contracts And Ancillary Matters
Study Of Contracts:
Require a deep understanding of legal principles, careful scrutiny, serious endeavour, specific knowledge and effective communication skills.
It starts with drafting a comprehensive contract tailor-made to the specific needs of both parties. It involves understanding the legal and commercial implications of each clause in the contract and ensuring the terms and conditions be favorable to all concerned.
When diligently carried out, a judicious study of contracts and agreements can help businesses avoid disputes, mitigate risks, reduce uncertainty and achieve the parties’ rational goals.
Expert Reports and Legal Consultations
Expert reports:
These are generated by experts offering their opinions on points of controversy in a legal case as the reports state facts, discuss details, explain reasons and justify the experts’ conclusions and opinions.
Legal consultation:
It is crucial that guidance in any legal matter, whether or not presented before the court, be comprehensive.
Appropriate legal advice can certainly change things and may impact upon any court decision. In this regard, the legal advice sought and given is clearly important for managing all legal issues relevent to the case so as to achieve positive results.
Establishing Companies
There are important measures to take into consideration when setting up a business.
Included are steps to identify the legal entity type, to choose a business name, to get the appropriate business license and to apply to the relevent governmental authorities.
Every Free Zone or Federal/Local Government has its own rules and regulations for setting up companies and operating businesses.
Depending on the company’s activities and license systems, each company has a different minimum share capital requirement, ranging from AED 1,000 to AED 1,000,000. Deciding which regulations to follow can be daunting.
Debt Collection
Debt collection process:
Can be a time consuming process.
This is due to a number of factors including the strict legal system in the land, prevailing cultural norms and traditions as well as the high value placed on maintaining business relationships.
Debt Collection Procedures:
These relate to a legal process of collecting outstanding debts from individuals or companies who have defaulted (failed to pay their debts on time).
The process involves a series of steps that creditors and debt collecting agencies must follow to recover the monies owed.