A great deal of UAE business cannot proceed until a document is notarised. A power of attorney, a memorandum of association, a board resolution appointing a manager, a local service agent agreement: each has to be executed in front of a notary before an authority, a bank or a court will act on it. There are three routes to that, being the Ministry of Justice notary public offices, the courts, and licensed private notaries, and the Ministry of Justice also runs a digital power of attorney service covering eight types including legal cases, real estate, rental disputes, licensing, vehicles, stocks and company management, which produces a ratified digital power of attorney without attending an office. Which route is available depends on the document. We work that out first, because the wrong route means doing it twice.
