When do I have to appoint property lawyer in Dubai?
A common question among our clients is about appointing a property lawyer in Dubai. Could be needed well, actually it’s much better to do it the moment you decide doing your transaction. The first thing your real estate lawyer in Dubai should do is to check the legitimacy of your transactions.
The potential risk involved with giving you approval on legal assessment which gives you as an investor chance to decide to go with this deal or to go to another one.
It is unfortunate that sometimes we find clients that could easily avoid the legal aggravation if he could just appoint an appropriate advocate in Dubai to review the transaction in advance and give advice. Some clients would ask, “what is the best clause to put in my Sale and Purchase contract?” we tell them that it’s not just about contract clauses.
Although the contract clauses is important, it wouldn’t be of any value if you did not make sure that you are dealing with the proper owner of the property, or if the representative signing the contract as attorney doesn’t have the same authority. Or if his Power of Attorney is revoked before he signs the contract with the client or it is not valid anymore. Such scenarios would lead to potential litigation, many litigations we witness in Dubai could be avoided if the client would have consulted a suitable lawyer in Dubai. Some clients would say that due to lack of time they were unable to find a lawyer in which I consider quite risky decision especially now a day’s many lawyers are available online or through WhatsApp services.
If a person who signed the Sale and Purchase Agreement doesn’t have the right to sell the property, which would be considered as a fraud because it is a breach of Article 399 of UAE Penal Code.
It is One of the unfortunate events we find in property cases is that will have the client undergo criminal proceedings and filing criminal cases in addition civil cases to take his money back. In our previous scenario.
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