A father is required to pay 20 thousand dirhams in compensation for his son's crime

“Appeals” reduced compensation due to the victim’s medical history.

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The Ras Al Khaimah Civil Court of Appeal decided to reduce the compensation for a (Asian) mother for material and moral damages to her son, as a result of being beaten, assaulted and insulted by an (Arab) boy, and the court amended the amount from 70 thousand dirhams to 20 thousand dirhams, after it was proved that her son was not injured He was disabled, and that he had an old nose history before the crime, according to a report issued by Saqr Governmental Hospital.

In detail, a mother filed a lawsuit demanding that the boy’s father pay her son (in her capacity as his guardian) compensation for the material and moral damages he suffered as a result of his son’s beating of her son, and a court of first degree ordered the father to pay 70,000 dirhams in compensation to the mother for the damages suffered by her son The ruling was not accepted by the father, so he filed a lawsuit before the Court of Appeal in which the judiciary demanded to dismiss the case.

The verdict stated that the error on the safety of the appellant's son is fixed according to the criminal judgment, and that the material damage is proven through the injuries described in the medical report, and that the legally established person is that the right of a person to the integrity of his body is one of the rights guaranteed by the constitution and the law, and that an assault on the integrity of the body deserves Financial compensation, and thus the material damage is available for assaulting the integrity of the body of the appellant's son.

She explained that what is proven in the medical report is the existence of an assault on the integrity of the appellant’s son from swelling and a fracture of the nose bone, pointing out that the report did not prove the existence of any deficiency, but rather that the son of the respondent had a history of illness, which is a nose injury that caused a fracture of the nose and deformed bones Externally, which means that the papers did not disclose any defect, nor did they disclose anything other than what was proven by the medical report.

The court decided to amend the ruling and obligate the father to pay the appellant 20 thousand dirhams, material and moral compensation, and in proportion to the expenses and in return for attorney fees.

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