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Messenger KUWAIT CITY, Dec 31: The Court of Appeals upheld the verdict of the Court of First Instance, which acquitted a medical technician who was accused of indecent assault of a patient. The Public Prosecution accused the technician of taking advantage of the medical examination of the victim to touch her body, violating the sanctity of the body, and intending to violate her honor. Representing the accused was a team from Al-Taher Law Firm which presented a memorandum that included the defe...

Defendants attacked bitcoin buyer and his friends and sprayed deodorants on their faces Robbers in Dubai tried to snatch Dh500,000 in cash from an investor who wanted to buy bitcoins. Picture for illustrative purposes only. Image Credit: Gulf News Archives Dubai: A group of four Dubai-based expatriates has been accused of attempted robbery of Dh500,000 from an investor in a fraudulent bitcoin transaction. According to the Dubai Court of First Instance, the four U...

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One sentenced for misdemeanor By: Times News Service Muscat: One person was sentenced to imprisonment for one month and his license was withdrawn for a year for displaying in his vehicle in South Al Sharqiyah Governorate, Public Prosecution said.  A statement issued online by Public Prosecution said, "The Court of First Instance (Criminal Department) in the Governorate of South Al Sharqiyah has convicted the accused Maddah bin Hamad bin Mohammad of misdemeanor for displaying by his vehicle acc...

The recent case of A v D (HCCT 52/2020) reinforces the pro-arbitration and pro-enforcement approach of Hong Kong courts. Under Article 34 (3) of the Model Law (adopted by section 81 of the Arbitration Ordinance (“ Ordinance”)), an application for setting aside an arbitral award may not be made three months after the applicant received the award. In this case the applicants sought to extend the time to set aside an arbitral award. The Court of First Instance (“ Court”) took the view tha...

Dubai: A Dubai sales manager has been accused of forging 21 official documents and embezzling Dh787,629 from his company. The Dubai Court of First Instance heard on Wednesday that the 34-year-old Syrian defendant, who was responsible for renewing the company’s trade licence and following up on transactions with government departments, had scammed his company between 2014 to 2017. According to a 32-year-old Indian official at the company, the defendant used to present fake receipts for governm...

[co-author: Carrie Yiu] In T v W (HCA 366/2020, [2020] HKCFI 2918), the Hong Kong Court of First Instance considered the interesting question of whether a claim made on a dishonoured cheque was caught by and fell within the application of an arbitration clause in the underlying loan agreement in respect of which the cheque was issued. The Loan Agreement and the Cheque On 22 March 2019, the Plaintiff (as the lender) and the Defendant (as the borrower) entered into an agreement for a loan of HK$...

Messenger KUWAIT CITY, Dec 29: The Court of Appeals upheld the verdict issued by the Court of First Instance which acquitted a Kuwaiti citizen who was accused of broadcasting false news about the entry of a number of Egyptian residents into the country and claiming that they are infected with COVID-19 virus. It also upheld another verdict which acquitted him of charges of using words deemed offensive to the entity of His Highness the Amir, and misusing a smartphone. The Public Prosecution char...

Dubai: Three men were sentenced to three years in jail, to be followed by deportation, for forging documents and posing as representatives of a Dubai-based law firm and thereby swindling a customer of Dh232,340. The Dubai Court of First Instance ordered the three-member gang to pay a fine of Dh442,340. According to records, the victim had contacted the law firm to follow up civil cases at Dubai Courts in 2018, since he was staying in Turkey. But two Nigerian men and a Cameroonian man forged the...

Hong Kong: Detention policies explained The Immigration Department today reiterated that the detention of illegal immigrants, overstayers or people refused permission to land in Hong Kong complies with the relevant legal requirements and principles established by the court. According to the prevailing detention policies, the department will consider all the facts and circumstances of the particular case when determining whether an individual should be detained. These include whether the person ...