Mohammed bin Rashid issued a law on the courts of the Dubai International Financial Center

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister, may God preserve him, in his capacity as ruler of the Emirate of Dubai, issued Law No. (2) of 2025, regarding the courts of the Dubai International Financial Center, where the law stipulated the organization of the affairs of the judicial and administrative bodies of the center’s courts and determining their competencies, and that the Dubai International Financial Center courts (the Court of Appeal, Courts of First Instance and the Court of Small Case) include their tasks and competencies Independently, in accordance with the provisions of this law and the laws and regulations of the center and the rules of the courts, while the law also defined the mechanisms of appointing the president and director of the courts and their competencies.

In support of the commitment of the courts of the Dubai International Financial Center, the provision of an effective set of conflict settlement mechanisms, the new law provides an alternative path to resolving and settling disputes, as the new law stipulated the establishment of a mediation services center, allowing the parties to negotiate the settlement of their conflicts amicably, with the help of intermediaries registered with the courts of the Dubai International Financial Center, and the head of the center determines his work system and specialties, and the procedures to be followed before him.

According to the new law, the courts of the Dubai International Financial Center are specialized, not others, to consider and adjudicate requests and civil, commercial and labor lawsuit, which are raised from or on the center’s bodies or institutions, or that the center’s bodies or institutions are a party to it.

It is also concerned with requests and civil, commercial and labor lawsuits arising from or related to contracts, whether they are concluded, completed or implemented in part or completely within the center or will be implemented actually, or it is supposed to be implemented in the center, according to explicit conditions stipulated in those contracts, as well as requests and cases related to facts or transactions related to the center’s bodies or the center’s institutions and activities, or the activity of workers in any Including, whenever they are completely or partially within the center, requests and lawsuits arising from or related to the bonds of the established or registered in the center, and the commandments of non -Muslim registered with the courts, and cases and requests for recognition or ratification of arbitration rulings, in accordance with the arbitration law in force within the Dubai International Financial Center.

The law stipulated that the Dubai International Financial Center courts specialize in considering and adjudicating the requests for temporary and conservative measures related to requests and cases that fall within the jurisdiction of the center’s courts, and inquire about the true identity of the defendant or the potential defendant to prosecute him before the center’s courts, as well as inquire about funds or assets owned by the defendant, or submitted the request in requests and cases that enter the jurisdiction of the courts, requests, cases, or cases. Arbitration procedures raised or that will be uploaded outside the Dubai International Financial Center, provided that appropriate precautionary measures are taken within the center.

The law also defined the powers of the Dubai International Financial Courts, the procedures for litigation, proof, urgent matters and implementation, and the exception to submitting the compensation pledge, technical defects, procedural defects and limitations.

This law shall replace the Law No. 10 of 2004, and Law No. 12 of 2004 regarding the courts of the Dubai International Financial Center, and any text in any other legislation is canceled to the extent in which it contradicts the provisions of Law No. (2) for the year 2025, and the implementation of regulations and decisions issued in implementation of the Law No. 10 of 2004 and Law No. 12 of 2004 referred to, to the extent in which it does not contradict the provisions of Law No. (2) 2025, until the release of the regulations and decisions that replace them.

This law is published in the Official Gazette, and it is made from the day following the date of its publication.