A school fight costs a student’s parent 30 thousand dirhams

Two students bullied their colleague inside the school, assaulted him, beat him, and photographed him, causing him physical and psychological damage. The Al Ain Court of Civil, Commercial and Administrative Cases ruled to oblige the guardian of the second defendant, in his capacity as guardian of his minor son, to pay the assaulted student compensation amounting to 30 thousand dirhams, after the plaintiff (the student’s guardian) left the dispute in the face of the first defendant.

In the details, the guardian of a student in a school in the city of Al Ain filed a lawsuit against the guardians of two students, in which she demanded that they be obligated to join hands and solidarity, in their capacity as guardians of their minor sons, to pay an amount of 500 thousand dirhams, as compensation for the material, psychological and moral damage that their two minor sons inflicted on her son, noting that the two defendants’ sons bullied her son and assaulted him. They were beaten at school and at home, as they were photographed beating him. This resulted in damage, which was represented by the victim’s feeling of fear, mood swings, and lack of control over his feelings. They were also convicted under a criminal ruling, and as support for their lawsuit, they provided a copy of the ruling issued in the lawsuit regarding the personal status of the person, and a copy of a medical report.

During the hearing of the case, the defendant submitted a request to abandon the dispute against the first defendant, and limit the dispute to the second defendant, and the court granted her this request.

In the merits of its ruling, the court explained that what is proven from reviewing the papers and documents, including a photocopy of the ruling convicting the defendant’s son in the present case, and another about the charge of assaulting the safety of the victim’s body, the plaintiff’s son, and that the assault occurred in a public place, in full view of people, indicating that this act upon which the criminal case was filed is the same upon which the plaintiff relies, and therefore that court has decided in a final chapter. It is necessary in the occurrence of the act that constitutes the common basis between the two lawsuits, criminal and civil, and in the legal description of this act and its attribution to its perpetrator.

Regarding the request for compensation, the court indicated that it was proven that the defendant’s son was at fault, and that it resulted in harm to the plaintiff’s son, represented by the physical damage he suffered according to the criminal ruling documenting the claim, which incapacitated him from doing his personal work for a period not exceeding 20 days, and his feeling of psychological pain that befell him as a result of that resulting assault by the defendant, and a causal relationship existed between the error and the damage, so the defendant is legally obligated to compensate. The plaintiff for that damage, and the court ruled to prove that the plaintiff abandoned her claim with respect to the first defendant, obligated her to pay the abandonment expenses, and obligated the second defendant to pay the plaintiff an amount of 30 thousand dirhams according to the reasons and expenses.