Getting a trustworthy criminal Legal Consultancy in Dubai services is a hard process for many individuals who have been convicted of a crime committed within the state’s jurisdiction. The country’s legal framework is distinctive in many aspects, and it is rooted in Islamic Shariah Law, as do many other states in the Middle East region. The Shariah Law provides sophisticated classifications for criminal violations, which your Legal Consultant needs to have expertise in. With a team of competent criminal case defense consultants in Dubai and UAE, we have earned a reputation as a reliable criminal law consulting firm willing to represent you in defending any criminal allegations you face and litigating on your behalf in trials if needed. Our legal consultants are well-versed in federal court processes and have been trained to handle cases from preliminary police investigations and formal prosecution to trial negotiations and courtroom litigation
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Our criminal case defense and legal advisory services are founded on providing clients with empathetic and pragmatic assistance. We know that individuals may feel disturbed when faced with criminal allegations, therefore we contribute our legal experience by capturing all essential details and establishing a precise picture of the legal matter. In certain situations, our solicitors & advocates will first request bail and then prepare and submit the relevant memos and pleas as agreed upon with you.
Our main objective is to guarantee that you are treated fairly all through the process, and we can assure you that our criminal legal services in Dubai UAE are comprehensive, professional, and results-oriented. Book consultation now!
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Our legal team of consultants has been groomed to be highly knowledgeable. This allows us to assure our clients that the services they acquire are the result of extensive study, thought, and complete confidentially.
Engaging with us gives you access to our expert criminal consultants in Dubai & services. Our attorneys and advocates are qualified to provide comprehensive criminal defense legal services for all types of criminal lawsuits, including, but not limited to, the following:
- Offenses involving drugs cases
- Fraudulent financial activities
- Assistance in extradition
- Crime related to violence
- Sexual offense & harassment
- Deportation, absconding, travel ban
- Bail cases
- Bounce cheques cases
UAE Criminal law
The UAE criminal law is the branch of law dealing with public crimes and is divided into substantive and procedural law. The UAE Penal Code contains the legal provisions governing actions recognized as crimes in the UAE and prescribes the penalties to be imposed for such acts.
Crimes under UAE Penal Code with provisions of Sharia Islamic Law are divided into categories: felonies, which are the most serious; violations or contraventions, and misdemeanors. Punishments include fines, penalties, custody, confinement, Diyat (financial compensation to heirs of victim or the victim), temporary or life imprisonment, and death penalty.
In November 2021, UAE announced the amendment of 40 federal laws. The announced legal changes included the enactment of a new Federal Crime and Punishment Law (penal code) that came into force in January 2022.This new code replaced the previous one, which dated from 1987. The new penal code would offer “enhanced protections for women and domestic servants, strengthen public safety and security provisions and ease restrictions on extra-marital relationships.
Our Criminal Legal Consultants’ Experience
With our 10 years of significant experience in criminal cases, Souzan El Kayaji Legal Consultancy has acquired a great expertise in the field of representing clients charged with a Federal or State crimes in the country.
Our criminal Legal Consultants are ready to fight your case, with strongly defense represented by our advocates in criminal courts and UAE prosecutions.
Our team of top criminal Legal Consultants in Dubai is exclusively engaged in criminal cases in the Emirate of Dubai and other respective Emirates in the United Arab Emirates. Using the latest techniques, logical procedures, investigative databases, and investigations, we are ready for a quick and convincing response to any criminal emergency involving any client.
Cyber Crime
Cybercrime is criminal activity that either targets or uses a computer, a computer network or a networked device. Most cybercrime is committed by cybercriminals who want to make money. However, occasionally cybercrime aims to damage computers or networks for reasons other than profit. These could be political or personal.
In the UAE, banking fraud, hacking, sharing objectionable content online, credit card fraud, and identity theft are considered as cybercrimes and are punishable by law.
Cybercrimes in UAE:
- Email and internet fraud.
- Identity fraud (where personal information is stolen and used).
- Theft of financial or card payment data.
- Theft and sale of corporate data.
- Cyber extortion (demanding money to prevent a threatened attack).
- Ransomware attacks (a type of cyber extortion).
- Crypto jacking (where hackers mine cryptocurrency using resources they do not own).
- Cyberespionage (where hackers access government or company data).
- Interfering with systems in a way that compromises a network.
- Infringing copyright.
- Illegal gambling.
- Selling illegal items online.
- Soliciting, producing, or possessing pornography.
Our criminal defense legal consultants are up to date with technological advancements,
including recent amendments to Cyber Crime legislation to provide clients reliable legal aid.
With our 10 years of significant experience in criminal cases, Souzan El-Kayaji Legal Consultancy has acquired a great expertise in the field of representing clients charged with a Federal or State crimes in the country.
Our criminal legal consultants are ready to fight your case, with strongly defense represented by our advocates in criminal courts and UAE prosecutions.
Drug Crimes
Federal Law No. 14 of 1995 criminalizes production, import, export, transport, buying, selling, possessing, storing of narcotic and psychotropic substances unless done so as part of supervised and regulated medical or scientific activities in accordance with the applicable laws. The UAE police has dedicated departments to deal with drugs’ issues.
Several OTC and prescribed drugs that are legal in other countries are classified as illegal substances in the UAE.
Drug-related crimes in UAE such as:
Expatriates who are caught using drugs are usually deported to their home countries after they are jailed, but Article 75 of the new Federal Decree Law no. 30 of 202, gives judges the discretion to make such decisions.”
If drugs are found in your possession you may be charged by law enforcement with possession with intent to sell, even if the drugs were for your own personal use. The differences in the charges that can be brought against you for drug crimes are extreme. Penalties for a drug charge are based on the type and amount of drugs in your possession, intent to sell, or distribute, your past criminal record and the circumstances surrounding your case.
A drug trafficking offense in UAE can result in a felony criminal charge. The definition of drug trafficking is: the trade or dealing of illicit drugs and/or the sale or exchange of drugs. Heroin, cocaine, marijuana and Tra*madol are the most common drugs found in drug trafficking cases. UAE takes a no tolerance stance on the fight against drugs. The charges that can be brought against you for drug trafficking crimes are extreme; the penalty can be up to life imprisonment, and death penalty if you are convicted for the second time
In UAE, the laws against the illegal transportation of drugs (also known as narcotics or controlled substances) are designed to severely punish big time dealers and repeat offenders. Drug transportation is defined as the illegal movement of a controlled substance from one location to another. This can be via aircraft, motor vehicle, watercraft, train or by any other means. Our criminal defense legal consultants are up to date with technological advancements, including recent amendments to Drug legislation to provide clients reliable legal aid. With our 10 years of significant experience in criminal cases, Souzan El-Kayaji Legal Consultancy has acquired a great expertise in the field of representing clients charged with a Federal or State crimes in the country. Our criminal legal consultants are ready to fight your case, with strongly defense represented by our advocates in criminal courts and UAE prosecutions.
Defamation
– Federal Decree-Law No. 31/2021 On the Issuance of the Crimes and Penalties Law (the Penal Code).
What is Defamation in UAE Law?
Articles 425 and 426 of the new Criminal Code provide for two main crimes of defamation: Article 425 prohibits the public allegation of a fact against someone that exposes the victim to punishment or humiliation, and Article 426 refers to publicly insulting someone in a way that may offend the victim’s honor or dignity. Dubai’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, has ruled that a defamatory statement is likely to subject the person defamed to “punishment” or “humiliation”.
Articles 425 and 426 of the new Criminal Code provide for two main crimes of defamation: Article 425 prohibits the public allegation of a fact against someone that exposes the victim to punishment or humiliation, and Article 426 refers to publicly insulting someone in a way that may offend the victim’s honor or dignity. Dubai’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, has ruled that a defamatory statement is likely to subject the person defamed to “punishment” or “humiliation”.
If found guilty of an offence under the Penal Code, individuals can face a fine of up to AED 20,000 or a prison sentence of up to two years for an offence under Article 425 or one year under Article 426. If a statement is made against a public official, it will be considered an aggravating circumstance, which may result in an increased penalty. However, the new Penal Code also introduces new defenses if the incident attributed to a public official is proven to be factual and related to his duties. Statements which insult a person’s honor or the reputation of their family will also be subject to penalties at the more severe end of the scale.
The new Penal Code also introduced a separate crime, carrying its own penalty, to interfere with the right to privacy and family life by recording or transmitting private conversations or taking or transmitting pictures of a person in private, in each case without consent. This offence is mirrored in the new Cybercrimes Law, which also makes it an offence to spread news, images, footage and information, even if true and correct, if done with the intent to harm a person. Conviction can carry a hefty fine of AED 250,000 – AED 500,000 and/or a prison sentence of at least one year upon conviction. The complainant can file a civil claim for damages in tort. “wrongful acts causing harm” and may be entitled to compensation, provided the elements of the case can be proved. Our criminal defense legal consultants are up to date with technological advancements, including recent amendments to Defamation legislation to provide clients reliable legal aid. With our 10 years of significant experience in criminal cases, Souzan El-Kayaji Legal Consultancy has acquired a great expertise in the field of representing clients charged with a Federal or State crimes in the country. Our criminal legal consultants are ready to fight your case, with strongly defense represented by our advocates in criminal courts and UAE prosecutions.
Financial Crimes
Financial Crimes are criminal activities carried out by individuals or criminal organizations to provide economic benefits through illegal methods. Financial crimes, which have become a critical issue in recent years worldwide, cause significant harm to the economy and society.
Our legal consultants have provided legal aid to clients under investigation for financial crimes, including money laundering, loan and/or credit card fraud, unlawful use of financial instruments and property, bribery, and corruption. These grave offenses are often committed for personal financial gains or due to lack of information or deception by a third party. The firm also offers consultancy services for financial crime prevention, including whistleblowing, anti-money laundering, anti-corruption and bribery, and financial crime risk assessment.
Our criminal defense legal consultants are up to date with technological advancements, including recent amendments to Financial Crimes legislation to provide clients reliable legal aid.
With our 10 years of significant experience in criminal cases, Souzan El-Kayaji Legal Consultancy has acquired a great expertise in the field of representing clients charged with a Federal or State crimes in the country.
Our criminal legal consultants are ready to fight your case, with strongly defense represented by our advocates in criminal courts and UAE prosecutions.
Theft & Robbery Crimes
Theft is the criminal offence of dishonestly taking someone else’s property both without their consent and with the intention of permanently depriving them of it.
Theft comes in many different forms such as: shoplifting, burglary, etc. Typically the greater the value of what is stolen; the more seriously the crime of theft is regarded. Furthermore, it is also considered more serious if the theft has been planned in advance.
Robbery is the criminal offence of forcibly threatening to steal or actually forcibly stealing from a person. It is often described as a form of aggravated theft in the sense that the offence of theft is established. However, additional elements that elevate it from being just a theft are the presence of a victim and the use of force, a threat, or intimidation towards the victim (either before or during the theft).
theft is punishable by jail sentence of at least six months or a fine. Having said that, Article 442 of the UAE Penal Code states that a theft committed in a means of transport is punishable with imprisonment of not less than one year. Article 441 also provides for imprisonment of up to seven years if theft is committed during night time and by a person carrying a weapon.
If a person has committed robbery by coercion or threat to use a weapon with the purpose of either keeping, obtaining or running away with the stolen goods, he shall be punished with imprisonment ranging between three years to fifteen years under Article 438 of the UAE Penal Code.
We defend and advise on all types of charges related to theft crime in the UAE, including simple theft and aggravated theft. The former, stealing without forgoing circumstances, results only to a misdemeanor charge with our legal advisory. However, convicted aggravated theft or armed robbery may result to fines, probation, and/or imprisonment without appropriate legal representation.
Our criminal defense legal consultants are up to date with technological advancements, including recent amendments to Theft& Robbery Crimes legislation to provide clients reliable legal aid.
With our 10 years of significant experience in criminal cases, Souzan El-Kayaji Legal Consultancy has acquired a great expertise in the field of representing clients charged with a Federal or State crimes in the country.
Our criminal legal consultants are ready to fight your case, with strongly defense represented by our advocates in criminal courts and UAE prosecutions.
Sex Crimes
Previously, under Federal Law No. 3 of 1987, living with an unmarried partner was punishable by a year in prison. Amendments to the Federal Decree-Law No. 15 of 2020 announced last year decriminalized consensual relationships between unmarried couples. The most recent Penal Code regulates extramarital relations by providing a mechanism for the spouse or guardian to file a lawsuit.
Significant Amendments to New Penal Code
The Federal Decree-Law No. 31 of 2021 concerning the UAE Penal Code, released in November 2021 as part of the UAE’s most significant set of legislative changes, intends to boost women’s and domestic workers’ protections while promoting social cohesion public safety.
The new law effectively decriminalizes consensual relationships out of marriage and provides that any child conceived as a result of the relationship is acknowledged and will be cared for.
However, any couple conceiving a child outside of marriage will be required to marry or singly or jointly acknowledge the child and provide identification papers and travel documents in accordance with the laws of the country of which either is a citizen. Failure to comply could lead to prison terms.
The new law stipulates life imprisonment for rapists. If the victim is under the age of 18, disabled or otherwise rendered in a condition unable to offer resistance, the sentence can be extended to capital punishment.
This law also covers indecent assault of both sexes, which will be punished with imprisonment or a fine of no less than Dh10,000, regardless of the victim’s sex. If the use of force or threat is employed in the course of the crime, the penalty will be a jail term of between five and 20 years.
There are various types of common sex crimes that one can be charged with. For instance, here are some common crimes:
Rape
As many know, rape is a serious and common sex crime that individuals can commit. Rape is considered to be any sexual act that is not consented to.
Sexual battery
Rape and other sexual acts can be forms of sexual assault, but in general, this crime is considered touching someone in areas that shouldn’t be touched. Sexual battery is done to others for pleasure or gratification for the party that is carrying out the action.
Child abuse with sexual acts
Child abuse occurs when an adult will force themselves onto a child in order to feel pleasure. In order to be convicted, the child in question must be under the age of consent and have experienced some physical harm.
Prostitution
someone who sells their body for money to satisfy someone else. In order to breach this law, both parties must agree on the transaction and have both exchanged goods.
Date rape
This offense is when someone will force non-consensual sexual acts on another person through third-party means, such as drugging them.
Lewd conduct
If you are in a public place and see someone touching themselves or bringing pleasure in open view, this is considered lewd conduct. Those that do these sexual acts in public will be charged.
Indecent exposure
Similar to the crime above, indecent exposure is when a person purposely exposes their private parts in a public place where others can see.
Our criminal defense law legal consultants are up to date with technological advancements, including recent amendments to Sex Crimes legislation to provide clients reliable legal aid.
With our 10 years of significant experience in criminal cases, Souzan El-Kayaji Legal Consultancy has acquired a great expertise in the field of representing clients charged with a Federal or State crimes in the country.
Our criminal legal consultants are ready to fight your case, with strongly defense represented by our advocates in criminal courts and UAE prosecutions.
Common types of sex crimes
Violent Crime
A violent crime is when someone physically hurts or threatens to hurt someone, and also includes crimes where a weapon is used.
Types of Violent crimes:
Types of Violent crimes:
- assault
- gun and knife crime
- sexual violence (such as rape or sexual assault)
- alcohol and drug-related violence
- gang violence
- domestic violence
- hate crimes (disability, faith, gender, gender identity, race or sexual orientation)
- murder or manslaughter
- Wrong Homicide
- Kidnapping
- Our criminal defense legal consultants are up to date with technological advancements, including recent amendments to Violent Crimes legislation to provide clients reliable legal aid.
With our 10 years of significant experience in criminal cases, Souzan El-Kayaji Legal Consultancy has acquired a great expertise in the field of representing clients charged with a Federal or State crimes in the country.
Our criminal legal consultants are ready to fight your case, with strongly defense represented by our advocates in criminal courts and UAE prosecutions.
