“Abu Dhabi Judiciary” described it as a historic ruling

The British High Court assures the jurisdiction of the Abu Dhabi Court in the case of a British couple

Abu Dhabi Civil Family Court provides guarantees and rights for foreigners.

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The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department appreciated the international trust enjoyed by the courts of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, in light of the pioneering and advanced legislative and judicial system, especially with the issuance of the Supreme Court in Britain a historic ruling confirming the jurisdiction of the Abu Dhabi Court for the Civil Family, to hear family cases for a British couple residing in emirate.

The British Supreme Court had issued a ruling confirming that the Family Court for Foreigners in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi is the court competent to hear family cases for a couple of British nationality residing in the emirate, in the event of a conflict of jurisdiction between the English courts and the Abu Dhabi courts.

In the judgment issued, the British judge, Edward Hess, affirmed that the Abu Dhabi Civil Family Court provides guarantees and rights for foreigners, other legal rules, and internationally recognized principles of justice, and he reassures the British court of the judgment that the Abu Dhabi courts have jurisdiction to consider divorce cases instead of British courts, and that it The most appropriate jurisdiction to hear the case.

This ruling comes against the background of a divorce case pending before the British courts, where the husband argued that the Abu Dhabi courts are the first to consider divorce and not the British courts, given the couple's previous residence in the UAE.

The British Supreme Court issued its ruling upholding the jurisdiction of the Civil Family Court in Abu Dhabi to consider divorce, and that the nascent court was established with the aim of providing judicial guarantees to foreigners and non-Muslims, to provide a judicial environment similar to those in their foreign countries.

The Abu Dhabi Civil Family Court was established under Law No. 14 of 2021 regarding civil marriage and divorce in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, which provided for the first time in the Middle East a personal status law based on international best practices, which depend on respecting the individual’s freedom and right to marry and divorce, such as divorce by will. Solitude, equality between husband and wife in signing a divorce, and civil inheritance that equals male and female inheritance and testimony before the court.

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