[T]oday Dubai is in danger of loosing its lustre and has to work to maintain its brand reputation. Inflation is in double digits, regional competitors – like Qatar or Kuwait – are growing stronger, and India – which supplies thousands of low- and mid-level employees – is providing ever more well-paid jobs domestically. As a result, Dubai has increasing difficulties recruiting and retaining the first-class workforce it needs to make its plans and projects succeed.

This ruling overturns a High Court decision that Tony Blair’s government and the SFO had caved in too readily to threats by Saudi Arabia over sharing intelligence related to terrorism.

Septic Isle offers some commentary on this ruling.