10 thousand dirhams in compensation for an employee who was insulted in front of his colleagues

The Abu Dhabi Court of First Instance obligated a man to pay an employee 10 thousand dirhams, compensation for the moral damages he suffered, after he insulted him in front of his colleagues, and threatened him with imprisonment.

The court rejected the plaintiff’s request for material compensation, noting that the case documents did not contain any evidence of material damage to him.

In the details, an employee filed a civil lawsuit, requesting that the defendant be obligated to pay him an amount of 60,000 dirhams, in compensation for moral and material damages that he suffered, while obliging the defendant to pay fees and expenses, indicating that the defendant insulted him in front of his colleagues and threatened him with imprisonment, and was issued against him. A final penalty ruling.

The court affirmed in the merits of its judgment that the criminal verdict had convicted the accused, was upheld before the Court of Appeal, and had not appealed against him in cassation, and the judgment became final and final, pointing out that the defendant was proven wrong according to the penal ruling, where the insult inflicted moral damages on the plaintiff represented in what caused him to his dignity and feeling .

She clarified that the judgment issued in the criminal articles has authority in the case, and the civil court refrains from re-examining it, and it must examine the civil rights related to it so that its judgment does not contradict the criminal ruling, pointing out that the unlawful act on which the criminal case was instituted is the same. On the basis of which the civil lawsuit was instituted, and then the civil court is bound by the evidence of the error and its attribution to the perpetrators, and it is not obliged to disagree with it or re-examine it.

She pointed out that the case papers lacked any evidence of material damage to the plaintiff, and that he had not submitted any evidence that he had lost when filing the criminal case against the defendant, so the court rejected the plaintiff’s request in this regard.

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