eSignature Legitimateness for Commercial Lease Agreement in UAE

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good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to another episode of pla with myself Nick and Bruno we've got three questions today and we'll be separating them we'll be doing two separate ones with Nick and then we'll jump into the last one uh with Bruno uh Nick the first question is from Oto who's one of our regular viewers of the of our Channel and then Oto says please advise on the legal standing on an entry inspection on a commercial property if the lease agreement is either specifically excludes it or is silent on it Nick so uh it's a really interesting Clause i' I've never seen a a clause in a lease agreement and Brun and I were discussing beforehand on a lease agreement that excludes inspection that's that's very arbitrary I don't know if if perhaps it's just a a wording problem there are certainly lease agreements that that are silent on on Entry inspections but for something to exclude an entry inspection that's that's an interesting Clause um the the difficulty I am having here is this is a a commercial property okay so if this lease agreement fell within the realm of the rental Housing Act this wouldn't be an issue because then there are requirements that are deemed to be part of the lease agreement which deals with um with entry inspections and if the lease agreement went against that those Clauses would be unenforceable you would have to apply what's part of the um the the rental Housing Act but this is a commercial uh lease agreement and so that act is not going to apply and the ultimate Authority on a commercial lease agreement is the document itself okay um there is nothing else in law that dictates how uh the the agreement should run except for what is contained within the lease agreement so if there is a clause which specifically excludes uh an entry inspection there's really no right to insist that one must occur in the circumstances not withstanding um you know you you wouldn't be able to to apply to a court to to get specific performance and enforce it but not withstanding it is in the best interests of both the landlord and the Tenant to do something like an entry inspection practically this this safeguards everyone in a particular uh you know in the transaction um and it's and it's just safety you know especially you you you've got to remember when it comes to lease agreements these are long-term contracts even even if they're not you know in law long term 6 months a year 2 years these are long periods of time for you to remember what exactly the the states of a premises was at the time that your tenant took occupation and and so a clause like this really I I don't see the benefit um for either party to to go into something blind like this uh I think RAR uh practical Minds should come together yes there's there's no ability to enforce it in law but I I think practic Bally both parties really ought to do the the entry inspection there's very little downside to doing it it takes some time you know a little bit of time out of your day but it's going to protect you a lot down the road um so I think while from the information I have here um Johan uh I can't say that there's a a way to to enforce it but I would say practical mind should should come together on this one talk about an inter inspection regardless of what the lease agreement says and see whether you can't do something uh in the circumstances uh it's really the best the best way to go in this in this particular circumstance absolutely so thank you there very much