There's been a lot of chatter about <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/chris/dommett">a decision early this week</a> at the Dubai Property Court that ordered a developer, Mizin, to pay <b>Dh7.5m</b> (US$2m) back to a buyer after it failed to register the transaction with the Dubai Land Department within the required 60 days.<br/><br/>Chris Dommett, property observer extraordinaire over at John Charcol, said in an e-mail to me earlier that "<i>it will prompt a flurry of registrations from developers who so far have been slow to comply with the rules</i>".<br/><br/> A Mizin spokeswoman told me that the company wouldn't comment because it is appealing the decision. Legal experts say the decision was a Court of First Instance judgment, which is not final. You need a Court of Cassation judgment and since the courts here are not bound by precedent, another judge could still come up with a totally different decision. It is up for debate what effect this will have? Any lawyers out there want to pitch in?