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Some financial free trade zones in Abu Dhabi and Dubai have their own legal and court systems based on English common law; local businesses in both emirates are allowed to opt-in to the jurisdiction of common law courts for business contracts. [4] [5] [6] The justice system in the UAE has been characterized as opaque.
The Dubai Courts (Arabic: محاكم دبي) are a Government of Dubai department responsible for the management, administration, hearing and issuing of judicial judgements for the Emirate of Dubai. The department is led by a Director-General who sits at the Dubai Executive Council and reports directly to the ruler of Dubai .
The emirates of Abu Dhabi and Dubai also have common law courts that adjudicate commercial cases in financial free zones, ... Dubai Judicial Institute is a public ...
On 31 October 2011, the signing of Dubai Law No 16. [1] allowed the DIFC Courts to hear any local or international cases and to resolve commercial disputes with the consent of all parties. The DIFC Courts are part of the sovereign structure of the Emirate of Dubai, within the UAE and independent from the Dubai Courts and Government of Dubai.
In 2010, Bin Sulaiman was arrested [3] and investigated by the Dubai Public Prosecution for alleged misuse of public funds. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He was dismissed from his governor role of DIFC. [ 7 ] The DIFC’s ex-governor was placed under provisional detention during the said investigation. [ 8 ]
Women from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Pakistan, and the Philippines travel willingly to the U.A.E. and Arab states of the Persian Gulf to work as domestic servants, but some subsequently face conditions of involuntary servitude such as excessive work hours without pay, unlawful withholding of passports, restrictions on movement, non-payment of wages, and ...
The number of human trafficking cases officially notified in the UAE has been falling. In the first half of 2014, reports of three cases of human trafficking were received by the Dubai Foundation for Women and Children (DFWAC) compared to 12 in the same period of 2013. [needs update] [24]
UAE-IX is a carrier- and data center-neutral internet exchange point (IXP) situated in Dubai . It interconnects global networks, network operators and content providers in the GCC region. Founded in 2012, [1] UAE-IX is built on a fully redundant switching platform located in two data centers in Dubai, Datamena and Equinix.