Lawyer to princesses and to prisoners, to NGOs, executives and families in crisis. David Haigh is Britain’s go-to voice on justice in Dubai and the wider UAE: more than a decade spent freeing the wrongly detained, fighting cross-border custody battles, and taking on the most powerful men in the region. And winning. He knows the stakes because he has lived them. Wrongly jailed in Dubai himself, he came home, fought for ten years to prove it, and won.
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