The judicial system of the United Arab Emirates is divided into federal courts and local courts, with the Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi overseeing the federal judiciary and deriving its authority from the constitution of the United Arab Emirates. As of 2023 only three of the seven emirates, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah, maintain their own local court systems, while the remaining emirates rely entirely on the federal courts for their legal matters. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The UAE is a civil law jurisdiction... both local and federal courts have Sharia courts with exclusive jurisdiction in family/marriage mattersView the Source Judicial system of the United Arab Emirates (Wikipedia)
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The judicial system of the United Arab Emirates is divided into federal courts and local courts.
In Group: Ottoman and Arab Mixed Legal Orders, Introduction, sentences 4-5
The UAE is a civil law jurisdiction, hence unlike common law jurisdictions, legal proceedings in the UAE do not rely on precedents, although sometimes the judgments of higher courts can be applied by lower courts in cases with similar facts. The emirates of Abu Dhabi and Dubai also have common law courts that adjudicate commercial cases in financial free zones, with both emirates allowing local businesses to opt-in to the jurisdiction of the common law courts for business contracts.
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