UK Parliament Starts Inquiry Into UAE’s ‘Scandalous’ Treatment Of Foreign Business Execs
IHR Advisors in Forbes on 21 June 2023
Forbes journalist, Dominic Dudley, reports on an Open Evidence Session organised by IHR Advisors which was held at the UK House of Lords on 14 June 2023.
The legal system of Dubai and the rest of the United Arab Emirates is coming under renewed international scrutiny, with the launch of an inquiry by members of the British parliament into how foreign business executives are treated when accused of breaking the law.
Baroness Helena Kennedy, a prominent barrister and Labour Party member of the House of Lords, is chairing the inquiry, which held an evidence-gathering session in parliament on June 14, entitled The Real Cost of Doing Business in the UAE. Early on in the proceedings she pointed to the importance of an independent judiciary and due process and commented to one witness that “as your evidence has shown, there are shortcomings on many of those fronts in the UAE”.
The cross-party panel also includes Conservative Party MP Robert Buckland, who served as secretary of state for justice from 2019-21, and Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael, who takes a close interest in human rights issues in Gulf states.
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