Category: Legal Updates
Termination of Commercial Agency in the United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates (the “UAE”) issued Federal Law No. 3 of 2022 on regulating commercial agencies (the “Law”), which will come into force next month (i.e., 16 June 2023). This Law is assumed to...
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Corporate Governance of Non-banking Financial Companies in Egypt
In Egypt, the General Authority for Investment and Free Zones (“GAFI”) and the Financial Regulatory Authority (“FRA”) are taking significant steps to establish and improve Corporate Governance (“CG”) regulations to facilitate effective, entrepreneurial and prudent...
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Winds of change and the New Evidence Law in UAE
Introduction The main work of a legal system is deciding matters of past fact. Evidence is the path that each litigant walks through to make the existence of a fact more or less probable. Evidence...
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Statute of Limitations in Kuwait
Introduction Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, once asked, “What is the justification for depriving a man of his rights, a pure evil as far as...
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Amendments to the KSA Personal Data Protection Law
Introduction In the 21st century of humankind, where modernization and globalization have hit their all-time high and while the emergence of communication instruments has connected humans throughout the globe, personal, corporate, and governmental data are...
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Overview of Construction Disputes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (“Kingdom” or “Saudi Arabia”) has initiated an extraordinary national infrastructure and development program as part of the Vision 2030 initiative. The main goal of the program is to diversify the...
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Contract Drafting in the State of Kuwait
Contractual disputes result from contracting parties deliberately or inadvertently departing from the perceived terms of an agreement. One of the most significant values of a properly drafted written agreement is that it mitigates against circumstances...
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New Resolution on Ultimate Beneficial Ownership and Implications on Foreign Ownership Restrictions in Kuwait
In recent years, Kuwait has been engaged in legislative initiatives that cater to attracting foreign investments, including establishing better corporate governance regulations that align with international best practice. One of the latest initiatives in this...
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Qatar Data Privacy – Between Recurrent Change
The state of Qatar did abide by the saying “do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”. During 2018, the state of Qatar went...
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