Federal Supreme Court.
The highest court of the UAE's federal judiciary, ruling on constitutional questions and hearing cassation appeals from the courts of the emirates that participate in the federal system.
Case law · United Arab Emirates
UAE law across two systems, with citations that hold up.
Ask about UAE law in plain language, whether the matter sits in the federal civil-law courts or the DIFC and ADGM free zones. Every answer is pinned to a citation you can open and verify.
Why it holds up
Answers you can check, not trust.
Researching UAE law means working across two very different traditions. The federal civil-law courts, capped by the Federal Supreme Court, sit alongside local court systems — notably Dubai's own courts and Court of Cassation — while the DIFC and ADGM financial free zones run English-language common-law courts of their own. Knowing which body of authority governs, and then finding it, is half the battle.
LexChat retrieves from UAE reported decisions and legislation before reasoning — federal and local courts as well as the DIFC and ADGM courts — and works only from what it found. Every proposition in the answer is pinned to a source you can open, so you can check the court, the language and the holding for yourself.
The court system
United Arab Emirates's courts, ready to query.
Dubai Courts and Court of Cassation.
Dubai maintains its own local court system, from the Court of First Instance through the Court of Appeal to the Dubai Court of Cassation, the final court for matters within its jurisdiction.
DIFC Courts.
The English-language, common-law courts of the Dubai International Financial Centre, hearing civil and commercial disputes within the free zone and cases where the parties opt in.
ADGM Courts.
The common-law courts of Abu Dhabi Global Market, deciding civil and commercial matters arising in or connected to the free zone in English-language proceedings.
How it works
From question to authority in three steps.
Ask in plain language.
Describe the issue the way you would to a colleague — no query syntax, no database codes, no guessing at keywords.
Retrieval before reasoning.
LexChat searches UAE sources first, and reasons only over what it actually found.
Citations you can open.
Answers arrive pinned to decisions and provisions. Open the source, confirm the holding, and cite it with confidence.
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