The Qatari royal family is more accustomed to Paris's finest luxury hotels than to the shabby courtrooms of the Paris Industrial Tribunal in the city's 10th arrondissement. Yet it was there that The Why Lab, the investment vehicle of Sheikha Noor Al-Thani, was ordered on 12 February to pay tens of thousands of euros to her former right-hand man. This ruling follows four years of legal proceedings between the executive and the princess, who has been entangled in numerous disputes with various potential

