The Abu Dhabi Court decided to set off the excess fees and the rest of the school arrears

A private school is suing a “shadow teacher” because of his children’s expenses

The Abu Dhabi Court of First Instance ruled that the guardian of students (a shadow teacher) must pay a school an amount of 32,729 dirhams in tuition fees, after the arithmetic expert established a set-off between the late fees of the defendant and the fees of the shadow teacher collected by the plaintiff school.

In the details, a private school filed a lawsuit against the guardian of students, requesting to oblige him to pay 154,340 dirhams, with interest at 12%, noting that the defendant registered his four children in the school under written agreements, but he did not pay the tuition fees for his children for the year 2018. -2019, which is the claim amount.

While the defendant submitted a cross-claim statement, in which he requested the judiciary to invalidate the side agreement called the Shadow School, and to obligate the defendant crosswise to pay the plaintiff the sum of 320,000 dirhams received from it, in violation of the private schools’ regulation.

The report of the delegated arithmetic expert showed that the total value of the amounts that the defendant paid to the plaintiff school from those tuition fees owed by his four children amounted to 16 thousand and 540 dirhams, and no document was provided that he had paid any other amounts of the value of those fees, other than that he had previously A bank check was issued to the school in the amount of 68,900 dirhams, and the check was returned from the withdrawn bank without payment, because the account is ineffective and frozen, and then the total value of the amounts earmarked for the benefit of the school originally claimed by the original defendant in return for the study of his children during the academic year 2019/ 2018 after deducting what he paid from it amounting to 154,340 dirhams, and those tuition fees are approved by a decision of the Department of Education and Knowledge.

The report pointed out that the school had previously collected tuition fees from the plaintiff, in exchange for appointing him a learning support assistant (shadow teacher) for two of his children, on the basis that they were having difficulty in education.

In its ruling, the court stated that the clearing conducted by the expert, who is reassured by the court, concluded that what the defendant had paid, and what the plaintiff school had received fees in exchange for his children’s studies with it, as well as what it had received from amounts in excess of 50%, which is the percentage specified by the Department of Education And knowledge with regard to students who need additional assistance, and the expert concluded that the plaintiff deserves an amount of 32,729 dirhams owed by the defendant, after making the accounting between them, according to the percentage of 50% with regard to the shadow teacher.

The court ruled obligating the defendant to pay the school an amount of 32,729 dirhams, and obligated him to pay fees, expenses and attorney fees.

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