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Albania struggle highlights investment enforcement challenges Published by: Andrew Mizner at 07/04/2021 Albania’s attempt to annul a EUR 110 million arbitral award has failed, but the enforcement battle... Albania’s attempt to annul a EUR 110 million arbitral award has failed, but the enforcement battle has highlighted a growing trend for non-compliance with investment awards. Two years after...

Athletics Integrity Unit (© AIU) The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has welcomed decisions of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) yesterday in relation to nine cases brought by the AIU against Russian Athletes. The decisions confirm Anti-Doping Rule Violations for all nine Russian athletes in connection with the findings of the WADA-commissioned reports of Professor Richard H. McLaren and the related Evidentiary Disclosure Packages (EDP). Five athletes had  previously been found guilty ...

Dubai: An Indian woman was caught at Dubai International Airport with nearly 5.2Kg of Hashish, the Dubai Court of First Instance heard. A 23-year-old policeman at the Anti-Narcotics Department of Dubai Police found the drugs inside the woman’s luggage. The 24-year-old Indian visitor claimed that an unknown person had given her the consignment to be brought into Dubai last December. “She told me that someone had given her the drugs and that she needed go to a hotel in the Naif area of Dubai ...

Dubai: The Dubai Civil Court ordered three medics and a surgery centre in Dubai that conducted a nose-job that left an Emirati woman in coma to pay Dh10 million compensation. The doctors, who worked at a day surgery centre, were convicted for medical malpractice that led to the permanent disability of 25-year-old Rawdha Abdullah Al Maeeni. Earlier last year, Dubai Cassation Court upheld the one-year prison sentence for the 59-year-old ENT (ear, nose and throat) surgeon from the Dominican Repub...

Monday, 5 April 2021 Naidan Tüvshinbayar, President of the Mongolian National Olympic Committee (MNOC) , has been jailed for 20 days for an assault that has reportedly left the victim in a serious condition in hospital. The Khan-Uul District Court of First Instance today announced that Tüvshinbayar, who became Mongolia’s first Olympic gold medallist in 2008 when he won the men’s under-100 kilograms category in judo, would serve 20 days in custody in connection with the incident, as repor...

United Arab Emirates: The Federal Supreme Court rules for the first time... United Arab Emirates: The Federal Supreme Court rules for the first time in favor of taxpayers in one of the biggest tax cases in the UAE The UAE Federal Supreme Court recently dismissed an appeal filed by the Federal Tax Authority against taxes and administrative fines and penalties imposed by the FTA against a UAE company, a Dubai-based beverage distributor, in connection with excise taxes. The court also ordered tha...

Dubai: A Dubai housewife discovered that her maid was stealing valuables after she found her customised mask in the maid’s room. According to the Dubai Court of First Instance, the Emirati housewife was suspicious about her maid stealing valuables when she saw her special mask lying in her maids’ room at the villa located in the Al Qusais area of Dubai in February this year. “I searched her closet and found many stolen items such as mobile phones, tablets as well as a golden necklace,” ...

Dubai: A Dubai-based man, who was beaten up by a gang for refusing to pay massage fees, pretended to be dead in order to save his life. The Dubai Court of First Instance was told that the 23-year-old Moroccan man refused to pay Dh1,000 massage fees at a centre in the Tecom area before a group of eight men attacked him and stole his money and smartphone. “They punched and kicked me and I managed to escape. However, they chased me and kept assaulting me outside the building until I feigned that...

Inside the monumental building, reputed to be the l**argest constructed in the 19th century**, water is leaking causing rubble to fall, the basement is in a bad state and there are holes in the ceiling. But now the green light has been given to renovate the decrepit palace. "There is quite a discomfort, there are courtrooms and offices that look more like slums than rooms where justice is delivered," says Jean de Codt, President of the Court of Cassation. At 160 by 150 meters and a total gr...