A new bilateral group, the Omani British Lawyers’ Association (OBLA) held its inaugural event recently, attended by the Law Society’s vice-president Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, who spoke on the role of the Law Society in a diverse...
Students of LAWC gained understanding of ethics working with legal professionals at an Externship Fair held recently Sadef & Students of Qatar University’s College of Law (LAWC) met with a number of legal sector representatives in...
FORMER Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in killing protesters, after a trial that sets a precedent for holding Middle East autocrats to account. His sentence was not...
MORE than 300 leading legal professionals – both in-house and from local, regional and international law firms – attended the inaugural Corporate Counsel Middle East awards 2012 at The Westin Hotel Dubai on May 17....
NEW legislation including tougher punishments for companies that flout health and safety standards, grants private sector workers 30 days of annual leave and increases the length of maternity leave will finally come into effect after four...
THE Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Centre (QICDRC) has announced The Rt Hon the Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers (pictured) will replace The Rt Hon the Lord Woolf of Barnes as President of the recently...
A panel of Egyptian judges postponed a case contesting the constitutionality of parts of a law regulating last year’s legislative vote which Islamists won. The advisory panel gave the government’s lawyers and the plaintiff...
A prominent Bahraini human rights activist has appeared in court charged with inciting protests by using social networking sites. Nabeel Rajab was arrested on May 5 at Manama’s airport, on his return from Beirut. ...
EMIRATI lawyers are positive about Dubai’s decision to offer two different legal systems. A recent survey by the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts revealed that 96 per cent of those polled think Dubai’s...
A Casablanca court has sentenced a Moroccan hip hop artist to one year in prison for hurting the image of the police. Mouad Belghouat, better known as “Al Haqed” (The “Sullen”, “Enraged” or “Contemptuous” One,...
