Writing on UAE disputes, arbitration & regulation.
Shuhail writes regularly on the regulatory and dispute-resolution developments that move the market — the changes developers, institutions, and cross-border counsel need to act on.
Short, practical reads on what a new rule actually means, where the risk sits, and what to do next.
Resolution No. (2) of 2026: Dubai's New Enforcement Officers — Shuhail Ahamed
On 27 January 2026, Dubai issued <em>Resolution No. (2) of 2026 Granting Law Enforcement Capacity to Certain Government of Dubai Officials</em>. It looks administrative. It is not. In five short articles it converts a defined class of Dubai Municipality staff into judicial-seizure officers, wiring day-to-day municipal inspection directly into the machinery of statutory enforcement — and it should change how regulated businesses in Dubai think about who, exactly, is standing at their door.
LitigationSharjah's Digital Judiciary: The Sharjah Judiciary Platform — Shuhail Ahamed
In January 2026 the Sharjah Judicial Council launched the <strong>Sharjah Judiciary Platform</strong>, folding the courts, the Judicial Department and the Public Prosecution into one digital gateway. The headline is convenience; the substance is timing. Once filing, service and hearings move online, the procedural clock under <em>Federal Decree-Law No. 42 of 2022</em> starts running the moment a notice reaches a litigant's phone — and disciplined counsel must re-engineer how they track deadlines accordingly.
Technology & digital assetsThe CBUAE Payment Token Services Regulation — Shuhail Ahamed
The UAE now has a federal stablecoin rulebook. The Central Bank's <em>Payment Token Services Regulation</em> draws a hard perimeter around who may issue, convert, and hold fiat-referenced tokens — and, more consequentially for operators, around which tokens may actually be spent inside the country. If you touch a dirham- or dollar-pegged token in the UAE, this is now your regime.
ArbitrationEnforcing Foreign Arbitral Awards in the UAE — Shuhail Ahamed
The UAE is now a genuinely enforcement-friendly seat — but the award creditor who wins on the merits and loses on procedure at the execution stage has simply funded the arbitration twice; the value is in knowing which of three doors to walk through.
Real estateOff-Plan Property & the RERA Framework in Dubai — Shuhail Ahamed
Dubai's off-plan regime is not a single statute but an interlocking machine: escrow ring-fences the money, the interim register perfects the buyer's interest, and a graduated default scale disciplines both sides. Understood together, the architecture is less about protecting buyers <em>against</em> developers than about keeping capital moving without either party gaming the cycle.
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