The Federal Supreme Court rejected a contract by a contracting company against a judgment that ordered it to pay 307,000 dirhams to a citizen after it breached its obligations to complete the construction of its residential villa on schedule. The contract costs about one million and 200,000 dirhams and is completed within one and a half years.

In the details, a citizen filed a lawsuit against a contracting company, demanding the award of an engineering expert to show the work carried out in a residential villa contracted with a company to build it, and determine the value, and the delay in the implementation of the project and the liquidation of the case between the parties to the dispute.

He said that "under a contract signed in 2012, the company undertook to build, complete and maintain a residential villa according to the designs and specifications stipulated in the contract approved by the contractor, for a total lump sum inclusive of all the work of the contractor, which pays 700 thousand dirhams, and the rest 500 thousand dirhams paid by Sheikh Zayed For the housing, and the contractor undertook to carry out the work and deliver the villa within 18 months, calculated from the date of the license that was actually issued in March 2012, and the period of implementation of the contract expired in September 2013 without finishing the contractor.

The plaintiff demanded that the defendant be paid AED 435,000. After the first instance court ordered an engineering expert to order the defendant company to pay the plaintiff an amount of AED 307 thousand and AED 750 and was supported by the Court of Appeal. High.

The company said that "the ruling violated the law, because it adopted the report of experience, which contradicted the basis on which it was based, and the lack of appreciation for the additional work done by the benefit and the benefit, estimated at AED150 thousand, and experienced and not deducted from the value of the work of the enterprise, what Is enriching at the expense of others without a legal reason ».

The Federal Supreme Court rejected this appeal, stating that "the court of the subject has the right to collect an understanding of the facts of the case and to assess the evidence therein, including the reports of experts who are considered to be elements of proof and to interpret the contracts and extract the intentions of the contractors from them. To carry it.

She pointed out that the sentence of appeal for the defendant's obligation to perform the plaintiff the amount mentioned, established the judiciary on the evidence of the documents and documents, including reports of experience completed on the case of the same expert, especially the latest supplementary report, which considered the issue of utmost importance, He answered the company's objections.

- The company undertook to implement

Construction and delivery works

Villa in 18 months

But it breached the conditions

It did not abide by the contract.