Pay your traffic fines in installments

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Drivers who hold credit cards from Emirates Islamic bank can settle their traffic fines over a course of three, six, nine or twelve months — in interest-free installments. The minimum payment under the installments plan is Dh500.

All that Emirates Islamic bank credit card holders have to do is to download the Dubai Police app, or use the police website to pay their fines. Payments can also be made through service centers.

“It is an innovation service provided by Dubai Police to achieve our strategic goal of providing happiness to the society through Dubai Police services,” Brigadier Al Khateeb said.

Criminal case

A cleaner has been acquitted of pulling an 11-year-old boy from beside a rooftop swimming pool and groping him.

The 11-year-old Jordanian boy was said to have been playing beside the pool with his cousin when the 39-year-old Indian cleaner took him aside and molested him.

Citing lack of corroborated evidence, the Dubai Court of First Instance cleared the cleaner of molesting the minor in July 2016.

The suspect had pleaded not guilty and strongly rejected the accusation of molesting the boy. Records said the suspect took advantage of the boy’s innocence and groped him.

The suspect’s lawyer Abdullah Al Nasser, from Araa Group Advocates and Legal Consultants, defended in court that his client did not touch the boy.

“The boy claimed to interrogators that the suspect pulled him from beside the pool and made him sit down on a deck chair … then he claimed that he touched his back. How is that possible? That is impossible and illogical. It is incredible for the alleged incident to have happened in the way that the boy described it. It is impossible for the suspect to have touched his back while sitting down unless the chair had a hole. Besides, prosecution witnesses gave inconsistent statements,” lawyer Al Nasser defended in court.

The boy’s father alleged that his wife phoned him at work and asked him to return home for an urgent matter.

“When I reached home she told me that the suspect had molested our son. I spoke to my boy, who claimed to me that the suspect pulled him from beside the pool while he was playing with his cousin and touched him indecently. The suspect had molested my son a month ago as well,” the father claimed to prosecutors.

A policeman testified to prosecutors that S.D. was apprehended at the building in Tecom area where the incident happened.

“My client was maliciously accused of molesting the boy. The unacceptable accusation was levelled against my client because he had scolded the boy, who had been littering the pool. My client did not molest the child but he grabbed him by his arm to move him away from the pool and chastised him,” argued lawyer Al Nasser.

Compensation

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A man has won Dh1 million in compensation following a botched hip joint replacement surgery which ended with one leg four centimeters shorter than the other.

However, the Appeal Court will look into the initial claim of Dh10 million next month.

The Emirati claimant, who suffered severe pain in his left and right hips, was said to have visited a Dubai-based medical clinic where a specialised doctor recommended that he undergo a joint replacement surgery in his hips.

Following the surgery, the Emirati said he became bound to a wheelchair as his pain increased and he suffered paralysis in the muscles of his thighs and his left leg became 4cm shorter than the right leg, according to records.

The patient’s lawyer, Abdullah Al Nasser, of Araa Group of Advocates and Legal Consultants, sent two legal notices to the doctor, the clinic and the hospital where the surgery took place, asking them to compensate his client following the botched surgery and medical malpractice.

After failing to reach an amicable settlement, Al Nasser lodged a civil lawsuit before the Dubai Civil Court in which he sought Dh10 million in compensation to be paid by the three defendants [doctor, clinic and hospital] to his client.

“The doctor alleged, following the surgery, that it succeeded. Yet my client suffered paralysis in the nerves and became wheelchair-bound. The surgery increased his pain rather than stopping it. The claimant visited several specialists afterwards and he was told that the surgery had failed… when he went for several other opinions, doctors confirmed to him that he had been subject to malpractice. He also sustained a permanent disability and disfigurement,” Al Nasser said in his lawsuit before the court.

Despite having sent two legal notices to the defendants to reach an amicable settlement, the defendants refused to cooperate, the lawyer argued before the court. When Al Nasser lodged the civil lawsuit at the Dubai Courts Department, the case was referred to the Centre for Amicable Settlements of Disputes [CASD] that commissioned a medical committee to look into the case.

The committee decided that the Emirati patient had suffered rheumatism in his joints since childhood and that the surgery he underwent was botched.

In its report before the CASD, the committee mentioned that the claimant suffered medical malpractice and negligence and was left with a 30 per cent permanent disability.

However, the CASD referred the case to court after failing to reach an amicable settlement.

The defendants’ lawyers countered the patient’s claims and asked the court to dismiss the case.

The Civil Court dismissed the case against the hospital.

Meanwhile, the doctor and the clinic and an insurance company [where the claimant was insured] were ordered to pay Dh1 million in compensation to the Emirati against his medical, emotional, financial and moral damages.

 

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