Refused to abide by the contract

Obligating a woman to pay 9 million dirhams for attorney fees

The Abu Dhabi Court obligated the woman to pay a delayed interest of 5% of the principal amount.

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The Abu Dhabi Court for Family and Civil and Administrative Claims obligated a woman to pay a legal consultancy and law firm an amount of nine million dirhams, the value of a lawyer’s fee contract signed between the two parties.

In the details, a legal consultancy organization demanded to oblige a woman to pay her the amount of nine million and 20 thousand dirhams, the value of the due fees and the fees paid in her favor, with the legal interest at 12%, with obligating her to pay the fees and expenses of the lawsuit and in exchange for attorneys' fees.

The plaintiff explained that it is an institution that provides legal advice, and concluded with a woman a lawyer’s fee agreement to represent her before the courts in the cases that may be brought by her or against her, and to follow up the implementation of judgments, and to submit criminal complaints, and to represent her at the police and prosecution stations, and assigned her to initiate a number of cases, and to collect checks, She indicated that she had paid 20 thousand dirhams of court fees in favor of the institution, and carried out all the tasks entrusted to it, and therefore the fees agreed upon in the fourth clause of the fee agreement, amounting to nine million dirhams, are due. The woman demanded to pay the fees, but she did not respond.

The owner of the institution attended, but the woman did not attend, so the court decided to reserve the case for judgment, while the court made it clear that, according to the law regulating the legal profession, “the lawyer receives his fees according to the contract drawn up between him and his client, however, the court that examined the case may decrease, at the request of the client, the agreed fees. It must, if it considers that it is exaggerated in relation to the effort required by the case, and to the benefit that the client has.”

The court considered the plaintiff’s request for interest based on a factual basis and the law, while the court rejected the plaintiff’s request to obligate the defendant to pay her an amount of 20 thousand dirhams, the value of the fees she had paid in favor of the defendant, as the first did not provide any evidence that she had paid fees in favor of the second, and came Her statements regarding those fees are just statements sent without a document or evidence, and the court ruled to obligate the woman to pay the institution nine million dirhams, and a delayed interest of 5%, and obligate her to pay the fees and expenses of the lawsuit, and rejected other requests.

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