A “punch” costs a young man 26 thousand dirhams

The Abu Dhabi Family, Civil and Administrative Claims Court ruled that a young man must pay another 20,000 dirhams in compensation for punching him in the face and destroying a phone. The Criminal Court had convicted the convict and fined him 6,000 dirhams, bringing the total penalty to 26,000 dirhams.

In the details, a young man of Asian nationality filed a lawsuit against his friend (of the same nationality), demanding that he be obliged to pay an amount of 4,599 dirhams, the value of a phone that he deliberately destroyed, while obligating him to pay 20 thousand dirhams in compensation for the damage he suffered as a result of his injuries that prevented him from working for 20 days. Pointing out that the defendant assaulted his body, punched him in the face, left him with injuries and a cut in his head, and destroyed his phone. He was criminally convicted of two counts of assault and destroying the phone, and fined 6,000 dirhams.

In support of his claim, the plaintiff submitted a copy of the criminal rulings issued, while the defendant submitted a response memorandum in which he explained the circumstances and circumstances of the case, and attached photographs.

For its part, the court confirmed in the merits of its ruling that what is proven in the papers is that the defendant was convicted of assaulting the plaintiff’s bodily integrity according to a final criminal ruling, which means that the error under which the defendant was convicted is the same error on which the plaintiff relied regarding his requests in the present case. Therefore, the criminal ruling has made a necessary chapter on the occurrence of the act that constitutes the common basis between the two lawsuits, criminal and civil, and on the legal description of this act and its attribution to its perpetrator.

Regarding the plaintiff’s request for compensation for the material, moral, and moral damages he suffered as a result of the assault and the destruction of his phone, the court indicated that the defendant’s beating of the plaintiff as established in the penal provisions is considered a violation of the plaintiff’s bodily integrity, and the destruction of the phone owned by the plaintiff is considered damage to his personal property. What constitutes material damage that requires compensation.

The court ruled to oblige the defendant to pay the plaintiff an amount of 20,000 dirhams as comprehensive compensation for the material and moral damages he suffered, and to obligate the defendant to pay the fees and expenses of the lawsuit.