ADGM: UAE case law

Interim ADGM Courts orders in an administration do not conflict with a final Dubai judgment against the same company

The Federal Supreme Court resolves conflicts of jurisdiction between the federal judiciary and a local judicial authority, or between judicial authorities of different emirates, where each claims or declines jurisdiction or each issues a final judgment…

Dubai courts must stay a claim to receivables of a company under an ADGM administration order barring proceedings

A final order of the ADGM Courts placing a company in administration, which forbids starting or continuing legal proceedings against the company or its property without the administrators' consent or the ADGM Courts' permission, has res judicata effect…

When ADGM Courts, rather than Abu Dhabi courts, hear contract, letter-of-guarantee and branch disputes

Under Article 13(7) of the ADGM Founding Law, ADGM Courts have exclusive jurisdiction over civil and commercial claims to which ADGM or its authorities or establishments are party, and over claims arising from a contract concluded, completed or performed…

After Reem Island joined ADGM, a claim by a Reem Island company belongs to the ADGM Courts

New laws do not apply retroactively, but rules of public order take immediate effect on existing situations, and rules on jurisdiction ratione materiae are mandatory and of public order, so they apply at once to disputes not yet finally decided, even if…

Abu Dhabi courts lack jurisdiction over a claim to which an ADGM-registered company is a party

Jurisdiction ratione materiae is a matter of public order that the court must raise of its own motion. The ADGM Courts are a judicial authority separate from the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department, and under Article 13(7)(a) of Abu Dhabi Law No. 4 of 2013, as…