An Abu Dhabi court fined a dog owner 20,000 dirhams for attacking a child in the street.
The court obligated the dog owner to pay an amount of 15,000 dirhams to the child’s father as compensation for the damages and injuries sustained by his daughter after the dog attacked him.
The Abu Dhabi Criminal Court also fined the dog owner an amount of 5,000 dirhams because the dog attacked the child while he was walking in the street.
Case details
A father filed a lawsuit as the natural guardian of his kid, seeking that a dog owner pay him 50,000 dirhams in compensation for the material and moral losses caused to him and his son.
He was compelled to pay fees, expenditures, and legal fees, stating that his small son was shocked while strolling by the defendant's dog's assault, resulting in the injuries described in the medical report. The defendant was criminally convicted and fined 5,000 dirhams.
Court statement
The court, for its part, explained that every harm to others requires the perpetrator, even if he is not distinguished, to guarantee the harm, noting that the papers clearly show that the error on which the defendant was convicted is the same error on which the plaintiff relied in filing his current lawsuit.
The verdict thus established a required chapter on the occurrence of the conduct that serves as the foundation for both criminal and civil actions, as well as the legal description of this act and its attribution to its perpetrator.
Obliging the defendant to pay 15,000 compensation
The court ordered the defendant to pay the plaintiff, in his position as his son's natural guardian, a sum of 15 thousand dirhams to compensate Jaber for all of the losses he incurred, as well as to cover the necessary costs and expenditures.
