On 10 March 2025, the court heard applications for orders about how it should be assisted on issues of the law of the UAE at the trial of these two actions, which were to be heard together next year. The essential question was whether the parties should be permitted to call expert evidence of UAE law at the trial, or whether the issues of UAE law should be determined on the basis of legal submissions. At the hearing, the court rejected the applications for permission to call expert evidence, and gave directions for the service of written outline submissions on questions of UAE law