AL MAKTOUM
Princess Haya had been married to Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Prime Minister of the UAE. The proceedings spanned several years and substantively involved welfare proceedings in connection with the children, Family Law Act proceedings for protective orders, Foreign Act of State and Immunity arguments, proceedings relating to telephone intercept of Princess Haya and her legal team and related financial matters. This extraordinary litigation gave rise to seventeen reported judgments which can be viewed here, where PHB were successful in each and every case. We successfully secured the care of the children for Princess Haya and her former husband was ordered to pay to her the extraordinary sum of £554M by way of financial settlement. The matter received global media attention for several years.