Wednesday 19 October 2022

The DIFC Courts' Space Dispute Guide

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On 18 Nov 2017, I introduced Dubai's Courts of the Future Initiative.  That initiative has two projects:
I discussed the DIFC Space Courts on 10 Feb 2021.  An international expert working group will explore space-related legal innovations and consider potential space-related disputes and the likely outcomes in a Space Dispute Guide.  The foreword to that guide explains that it was prepared to demonstrate the type of disputes that the DIFC Courts expect to decide. They include disputes between states, space agencies, businesses and individuals over the manufacture, launch, navigation, and re-entry of a space object arising out of contract, tort, legislation or treaty.  The guide discusses two possible disputes,  One is between a company and a state over damage to a satellite caused by space debris. The other is about the liability of parties to a launch contract after the insolvency of a bank that agreed to guarantee the transaction.

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