Legal oversight of the document work described on this site, and of the guidance published here, rests with Emirati Senior Lawyer Abdulhamid Al Balooshi, who has practised for more than two decades. This page sets out the scope of that review and its limits: it is legal oversight of content and drafting, not a government appointment or a notarial authority.
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Who Reviews the Guidance Published Here
A practising lawyer does not automatically become a private notary. Article 31 of Federal Decree-Law No. 20 of 2022 permits a practising lawyer to perform private-notary duties only where the statutory conditions for private-notary admission are satisfied. Our website therefore describes our work carefully as legal advice, drafting, review and coordination of notary-related matters unless a formal notarial act is expressly being performed by the competent authorised notary.
Senior Legal Oversight
Abdulhamid Al Balooshi is an Emirati senior lawyer who has practised legal services for more than two decades. His role on this website is to provide senior legal oversight for content and legal-document work where appropriate.
Legal content concerning notarial formalities is YMYL information: a reader may rely on it when granting authority over property, changing a company, signing a guarantee, authenticating an overseas document or arranging estate-related documentation. For that reason, the website should identify who is responsible for legal review rather than publishing anonymous legal pages.
Areas of Legal Review
Senior review can be particularly important for:
- broad or high-value Powers of Attorney;
- corporate authority and shareholder resolutions;
- property sale, purchase, mortgage and gift authorities;
- guarantees, settlements and payment undertakings;
- foreign corporate shareholder documents;
- company ownership and management changes;
- cross-border legalisation pathways;
- documents affecting litigation, inheritance or family rights;
- DIFC and ADGM matters requiring jurisdiction-specific analysis.
Legal Reviewer, Not Government Authority
A lawyer's review of a document is distinct from the formal function of a public/private notary, court, registrar or government authority. The competent authority retains the power to determine whether a document satisfies its service requirements.
Federal law also distinguishes practising lawyers from licensed private notaries. This website should never use Abdulhamid Al Balooshi's legal credentials to imply that he personally exercises a notarial function unless the relevant authorisation for that function is current and verifiable.
How Our Legal and Notary Content Is Reviewed
This site covers two distinct kinds of work, and the distinction runs through everything published here. Legal services — drafting, review and advice on what a document needs to achieve — are provided by the firm. Notary services concern the formal acts assigned to notaries under the applicable framework. A page that blurs the two is not useful, so each guide states which is which.
Pages that set out legal or procedural requirements are written against the primary sources they cite: the federal notary framework and its Executive Regulations, the fee Resolution, and the published service pages of the competent authority for the transaction. Where a requirement belongs to a particular authority — Dubai Courts, DIFC Courts, ADGM, a free-zone registrar, or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs — the guide names that authority rather than describing a generic UAE process.
Requirements and published fees change. For that reason the guides link to the authority’s own current page instead of restating amounts or checklists that would age badly, and they are revisited when legislation or authority procedures materially change.
Higher-risk topics receive closer attention: notary fees, DIFC and ADGM rules, property Powers of Attorney, corporate ownership changes, wills, and foreign-document legalisation. These are the areas where an out-of-date detail costs the most, and where a page should send you to the competent authority rather than answer for it.
Our Legal Document Approach
We identify the legal outcome first, then the competent authority, signatory capacity, supporting documents, language, authentication requirements and downstream registration. This avoids presenting “notary service” as a single universal procedure.
Contact
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Corporate clients with recurring document requirements may enquire about longer-term professional arrangements and special professional rates based on scope and volume. Official and third-party charges remain separate.
Core Official References
- Federal Decree-Law No. 20 of 2022 Regulating the Notary Profession.
- Applicable Executive Regulations and fee resolutions under the federal framework.
- Dubai Courts official notary services for Dubai matters.
- Abu Dhabi Judicial Department official notary sources for Abu Dhabi matters.
- DIFC Courts Notary Service for eligible DIFC Notary Service transactions.
- ADGM Courts Notary Public for eligible ADGM matters.
- UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs for document-attestation processes.
- The current official registrar/property/free-zone source for transaction-specific requirements.
Legal Disclaimer
This page contains general legal information and does not constitute advice for a specific matter. Notarial requirements, authority procedures, fees, forms and service channels can change. A lawyer's drafting or review is distinct from the formal function of a competent notary, court, registrar or government authority. No notarisation, registration, attestation, acceptance, processing time or legal outcome is guaranteed. Obtain matter-specific advice and verify current official authority requirements before signing or filing. Where interpretation of UAE legislation is required, the official Arabic text should be consulted.