Insights & Case Notes
Case notes and analysis from Al Mur Law Firm.
Summoned by the Police in the UAE: What the First 72 Hours Decide
A summons is usually the first sign that something has been filed. It may arrive as a phone call, a message, or an officer at the door of an office, and it rarely explains what the complaint says. What follows is governed by a strict sequence of hours and days, and most of what decides the case is settled inside that sequence — before anyone sees a courtroom. Knowing the timetable is not academic: it tells you what can still be influenced and what has already become part of the record.
Frozen Accounts and Crypto in the UAE: Who Froze It and How to Challenge It
A frozen account is rarely explained at the moment it happens. The bank or the exchange says only that funds are blocked and asks for documents. Yet the first question decides everything that follows: who ordered the freeze, under what power, and for how long. Three different regimes are at work in the UAE, each with its own timing and its own route of challenge, and the wrong assumption at the start usually costs the only window the law provides.
Extradition from the UAE: Ten Grounds That Bar Surrender
Most extradition files reach a lawyer in the same way: a detention at the airport, or a bank that suddenly asks questions, and behind it a foreign request or an Interpol notice. The decision that follows is not discretionary. UAE law sets out conditions without which surrender cannot even be considered, and a list of grounds on which surrender must be refused. Knowing which of them applies to the facts is the whole of the defence.
Asset Attachment in the UAE: Grounds, Deadlines and Defence
Attachment is the step that decides whether a future judgment is worth anything. In the UAE a creditor can have a debtor assets frozen before the dispute is decided, and a debtor can find an account or a property blocked without any prior notice. Both sides are governed by the same provisions of the Civil Procedure Code, and both sides win or lose on the detail: the ground relied on, the proportionality of the freeze, and the deadlines that follow the order.
Cross-Border Enforcement Patterns
A creditor obtained a final commercial judgment abroad against a UAE-resident debtor. The real challenge began only after victory: how to move fast enough in the UAE to preserve recoverable assets before the debtor relocated them. Strategic Problem
When a Shareholder Dispute Turns Criminal
A scenario based on a pattern commonly seen in closely held businesses. A governance dispute between shareholders escalated beyond boardroom conflict after one side moved to weaponise criminal allegations involving company records, access rights and alleged misuse of authority.
What this section is
Two kinds of material. Case notes describe how a situation actually developed and what decided it — without names, numbers or anything that could identify a client. Legal guides set out how a specific procedure runs in the UAE, with references to the provisions that govern it, so that a reader can check the statement rather than take it on trust.
Each guide states the law as it stood on the date of publication and says so at the end. UAE legislation in these areas changes: the anti-money-laundering framework was replaced in 2025, the civil procedure code in 2022. Nothing here is advice on a specific matter, and the outcome of any case depends on its facts and on the forum hearing it.