United Arab Emirates: The UAE has established itself as one of the world's leading jurisdictions for virtual and digital asset businesses. Its regulatory framework has developed significantly in recent years, with distinct regimes now applying across the federal jurisdiction, Dubai, the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM).

We mark most of life's milestones with ceremony. We marry in front of witnesses. We introduce and confirm our children into religious movements in the presence of community. We farewell our dead with funerals that draw people from across the country. Yet the one document that quietly outlasts all of these events, and speaks for us after we are gone, is too often an afterthought: the will.

The Modern Slavery Bill has reached another key milestone, with the Education and Workforce Committee reporting the Bill back to Parliament and recommending that it proceed with a number of amendments. While the Committee has retained the Bill’s core reporting framework, it has introduced several changes designed to improve the regime’s practicality and better align it with existing reporting obligations in New Zealand and Australia.