Scope of Work
Few matters touch a person's liberty and reputation the way a criminal file does. We therefore treat every criminal matter as one that admits no delay, and we press to be involved from its earliest hours, from the police report or the first summons to questioning, because what is recorded at the evidence-gathering stage so often shapes the course of the entire case. To us, the presumption of innocence is not a slogan to be repeated; it is the foundation on which every submission is built.
We represent clients at every stage of criminal proceedings before the UAE courts: through investigation before the Public Prosecution, trial at first instance, appeal, and ultimately cassation. Alongside the defence on the merits, we pursue the interim applications that can matter just as much: bail, challenges to pre-trial detention orders and travel bans, and the lifting of precautionary restrictions, so that a client's working life is preserved while the matter is resolved.
Our experience extends to the financial and technology-related offences that characterise business life in Dubai: fraud, breach of trust, money laundering, cybercrime, bounced cheques, and defamation, including matters arising on social media. We also handle cross-border files, from extradition requests to challenges against Interpol red notices, and we act for victims in initiating complaints and pursuing civil claims within criminal proceedings.
What We Do
- Attendance and representation from the evidence-gathering stage: police reports, first questioning, and investigation before the Public Prosecution.
- Bail applications, challenges to pre-trial detention orders, and applications to lift travel bans.
- Defence in financial crime: fraud, breach of trust, embezzlement, and money laundering.
- Cybercrime and information-technology offences, including online fraud and misuse of systems.
- Bounced cheque matters and the criminal and civil liability that flows from them.
- Defamation and reputational offences, whether conventional or arising on social media.
- Extradition proceedings and challenges to Interpol red notices.
- Appeals and cassation, with grounds drafted to the precision the stage demands.
- Acting for victims: initiating complaints, civil claims within criminal proceedings, and pursuing compensation.
Our Approach
For us, criminal defence is the craft of the file before it is the craft of the podium. We read the papers page by page, rebuild the facts against the statutes and the judgments of the higher courts, and then set out a clear defence strategy for the client with complete candour: the strengths and the weaknesses, what is achievable and what is not, because candid advice is, in our view, the first of a client's rights.
Throughout, we maintain the absolute confidentiality a criminal file deserves, and we work in Arabic and English to the same standard of precision. A client who does not read Arabic will have every page of the file explained, and counsel at their side at every degree of litigation, to its end.