UAE ANTI-FRAUD LAW
The United Arab Emirates’ Federal Law Number 19 of 2016 on Combating Commercial Fraud (the Anti-Fraud Law), which went into effect in May 2018, amends the Old Anti-Fraud Law, which was enacted in 1979. Since its creation in 2013, the Anti-Fraud Law has been the subject of a lot of debate. The United Arab Emirates […]
UAE Defamation Laws
In the UAE, circulating defamatory remarks on social media is no different to printing them in newspapers, books, or periodicals, however the penalties might be much more severe and the easily accessible and informal nature of social networking can catch writers off guard. Given the immediate and largely uncontrollable dissemination of ideas posted to social […]
