13.5 thousand dirhams in compensation to the owner of "Maserati", which had an accident in a "workshop"

The Abu Dhabi Court of First Instance ordered a car repair shop and a technician at it to pay the owner of a Maserati 13,500 dirhams in compensation for the damages that occurred to the car, as a result of an accident while she was in the workshop.

In the details, the owner of a vehicle filed a lawsuit, in which he demanded to compel a vehicle maintenance workshop and one of its employees to pay an amount of 54,613 dirhams, the value of repairing his car, in addition to the delayed interest at a rate of 9%, and to oblige the defendants jointly to pay him an amount of 50 thousand dirhams as material compensation. Morally, and in reserve, an expert was delegated, obligating them to pay expenses and fees, noting that he handed over the first defendant (vehicle repair shop) the car, of a type “Maserati”, to be repaired.

While the report of the expert delegated by the court indicated that the plaintiff’s car had an accident, which occurred while the car was under the responsibility of the first defendant’s workshop, and that the traffic accident report clarifies that the person who was driving the car is the second defendant, who works for the workshop, and that the value of repairing a car The complainant and the amount of the decrease in its value is equal to 13 thousand and 500 dirhams.

For its part, the court made it clear in the merits of its ruling that the plaintiff’s requests are in fact a request for compensation, and that according to the text of Article 282 of the Civil Transactions Law, “every harm to others obliges the perpetrator, even if he is not distinguished, to guarantee the damage,” noting that it is clear from the case papers that the defendants They did not deny that they had caused the accident that happened to the plaintiff's car, and they acknowledged that, which makes the elements of responsibility of error, damage and causal relationship available in the right of the two defendants, and the element of error has been provided by them.

The court indicated that the delegated expert concluded in his report to determine the value of the plaintiff’s car repair and the amount of the decrease in its value, and the court ruled to obligate the two defendants jointly to pay the plaintiff an amount of 13,500 dirhams, and obligated them to pay fees, expenses and fees.

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