News & Events
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The ADGM Court has issued a landmark decision on the appropriate use of AI by lawyers. Sajid Suleman acted for the successful Claimant in a wasted costs application against the law firm. In Arabyads Holding Limited v. Gulrez Alam Marghoob Alam [2025] ADGMCFI 0032, the Abu Dhabi Global Market (“ADGM”) Court of First Instance, in what is thought to be the first such case in the UAE, made a substantial wasted costs order against a law firm for misusing AI in legal research for court submissions. Sajid Suleman acted for the successful Claimant in its wasted costs application. He was instructed by Ahmed Tony, Youssef Nassar, and Alia Elraey of Matouk Bassiouny. In this case, the Defendant’s then legal representatives filed a…
News 22 Dec, 2025
2021 saw the fifth anniversary of the first disputes registered before the Courts of the Abu Dhabi Global Market. Peter Smith takes this opportunity to consider the cases that the ADGM Courts have heard. The Courts publish a searchable list of claims before them. The first claims were registered at the Courts in 2017, and the numbers of cases show a swift increase over the intervening five years from seven claims in 2017, 13 in 2018, eight in 2019, 53 in 2020 and to well over 100 in 2021. An early indication is that the Courts are highly likely to surpass the 2021 total in 2022. Many, if not most, of the cases registered before the Courts relate to claims…
External Publications 11 Apr, 2022
