For decades, lawyers before the onshore UAE courts have warned clients to be careful what they put in a settlement letter, because a Dubai judge may read it back to them in court. The common law shield of “without prejudice” the principle that genuine attempts to settle cannot later be used as evidence of liability had no settled home in the civil law tradition governing the onshore courts. That assumption has now been disturbed: the Dubai Court of Cassation has, for the first time, applied a “without prejudice” principle in an onshore commercial dispute.
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This article was first published by The Oath.
July 3, 2026
