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May 26, 2021
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May 26, 2021
A United Arab Emirates (UAE) court has ordered a youth to pay Rs 0.84 million to a woman as compensation for hurting her feelings via text messages.
May 26, 2021
The European Union attacked AstraZeneca Plc’s Covid-19 vaccine supply “failure” and demanded millions of euros in penalties if the company can’t meet an urgent order for more doses in the latest round of a bitter legal dispute over alleged broken promises by the drugmaker. At a hearing that kicked off on Wednesday, a Belgian court is weighing EU claims that there’s an emergency situation that merits an order for the drug maker to deliver 20 million more shots than it has promised so f...
May 25, 2021
UAE: Youth ordered to pay woman Dh20,000 for hurting her feelings Web report/Al Ain Photo: Reuters He accused her of having a relationship with multiple men. The Al Ain Court of First Instance has ordered a young man to pay a woman Dh20,000 in compensation for hurting her feelings via text messages. ALSO READ: According to Emarat Al Youm, the young woman filed a lawsuit demanding the defendant pay her Dh100,000 as compensation for text messages he sent, in which he accused her of having a relat...
May 24, 2021
UAE: Man awarded Dh1.6m for work injury that led to disability Web report/Abu Dhabi Photo: Wam The company and the engineer in charge of managing the site were indicted for violating laws related to providing necessary protection for workers. The Abu Dhabi Court of First Instance ordered a contracting company and an insurance company to pay a worker Dh1.6 million in compensation for a work injury that resulted in disability. ALSO READ: According to Emarat Al Youm, the worker filed a lawsuit dem...
May 24, 2021
Dubai: Three Egyptian mothers were sentenced to six months in jail for exploiting their children and using them for begging in Dubai. According to the Dubai Court of First Instance, the three mothers were additionally slapped with a Dh5,000 fine, to be followed by deportation. Last November, a man noticed a seven-year-old child begging in the Naif area and decided to alert Dubai Police. A policeman said that the little girl admitted to begging at the behest of her mother. The mother who was cal...
May 21, 2021
Dubai: A gang of five men — three of them in medical masks and impersonating policemen — has been accused of robbing Dh254,000 from a cloth company in Dubai. According to the Dubai Court of First Instance, three men -- who were part of a five-member gang comprising two Bangladeshis and three Indians -- broke into the company’s apartment in the Naif area of Dubai in January this year and attacked the employees. A 33-year-old Indian salesman testified that initially, three men dressed in Em...
May 21, 2021
May 21, 2021 08:11:09 am The Hong Kong Court of First Instance denied a bid on Thursday for a jury trial by the first person charged under the country’s new security law, Tong Ying Kit. The court found that a trial in front of a jury is not a constitutional right and that decision from a panel of judges will not be different compared to a panel of juries. Tong Ying Kit was charged under sections 20, 21 and 24 of the New Security Law for “incitement to secession” and “terrorist activitie...
May 20, 2021
Hong Kong Court Backs No-jury Security Law Trials 05/20/21 AT 2:29 AM The first Hong Konger to be charged under Beijings national security law can be tried without a jury, a senior judge said Thursday in a ruling that cements the financial hubs fast-changing legal traditions. Tong Ying-kit, 24, was charged with two crimes under the new law a day after it came into effect after he allegedly drove his motorbike into a group of police officers during a protest. Hong Kongs justice secretary opted a...