A company demands 100,000 dirhams in compensation from a client

The Abu Dhabi Court for Family, Civil and Administrative Cases ordered a man to pay a kitchen supply company an amount of 3,000 dirhams in compensation for defaming her on social media.

In the details, a kitchen supply and installation company filed a lawsuit against a customer, in which it requested that he pay it an amount of 100 thousand dirhams in compensation for material and moral damages with an interest rate of 9%, and oblige him to delete comments on all websites that include abuse or defamation of her, noting She indicated that she contracted with the defendant's wife to supply and install a German kitchen, and the complainant implemented what was agreed upon, but she was surprised to be abused through websites, and he was criminally convicted, while the defendant submitted an answer memorandum requesting the dismissal of the lawsuit.

For its part, the court clarified that it is established from the criminal judgment that the defendant was convicted of the charge of insulting the plaintiff, and then the element of error was available before the defendant and was definitively proven against him, and it was clear that this error was the cause of damages to the plaintiff, and that the illegal act that The criminal case was filed on the same basis as the one on which the civil case was filed, which makes the elements of liability in terms of error, damage, and causal relationship available to the defendant, and the court ruled obliging the defendant to pay 3000 dirhams to the plaintiff company, and obliging him to delete his offensive comments.

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