07 — Practice
When you face a serious criminal allegation in the UAE, the quality of your representation is the single factor most within your control. The first hours after an arrest set the trajectory. The legal strategy adopted at the outset determines what is available at trial.
We defend individuals and corporates facing the most serious criminal allegations across the UAE. Our founding team's unique combination — a retired Brigadier General who headed Dubai Police investigation sections, a King's Counsel, and a solicitor with over two decades in serious crime — means we understand criminal investigations from every angle.
We don't wait for the prosecution to set the agenda. In a multi-jurisdictional fraud spanning five years with losses exceeding £30 million, we identified structural weaknesses in the prosecution's case at the investigative stage. In a series of three linked prosecutions relying on telecommunications evidence, we dismantled the Crown's expert evidence through cross-examination — all three cases were stopped before they reached a jury. In a financial regulatory prosecution for insider dealing involving activity on regulated markets, we built a defence strategy around the technical complexity that the prosecution had failed to master.
That is how we work: early, aggressive, technically precise, and always with the aim of ending the matter before it reaches trial if possible. When it does reach trial, we are prepared to fight for as long as it takes — we have led multi-week trials in the most complex cases.
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