He used a motorcycle license plate to drive another motorcycle license plate that was crossed out

Abu Dhabi: Abdul Rahman Al Said

Abu Dhabi Family, Civil and Administrative Claims Court has ruled that a person must pay Dh35,000 to the owner of a motorcycle because he transferred the license plate from his own bike to another bike that had been crossed out and used it on his motorcycle. He was caught by patrolling police on the road without permission from the licensing authority.

Specifically, a motorcycle owner filed a lawsuit against a repair shop worker, concluding that the defendant was obliged to compensate him for his material, moral and moral damages in the amount of 50,000 dirhams, and for precautionary reasons, a professional expert was appointed to examine the key points of the case and explain the nature of the faults of the motorcycle stored by the plaintiff in the defendant’s workshop and the reasons for the faults and the unfitness of the motorcycle for consumption after it was claimed to have been repaired.

In support of his claim, the plaintiff stated that: he owned a motorcycle which he kept in the workshop for repairs and agreed with the defendant on a certain amount in exchange for the motorcycle, which he paid as per the agreement. The defendant transferred the license plate from his bike to another bike, he was arrested on the basis of a traffic report from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the bike he was riding was removed from traffic, the Public Prosecution referred him to the court, which convicted him and fined him Dh10,000 in his presence and ordered him to pay judicial costs.

The court explained that it was reassured by what was established in the documents and in the report of the expert appointed to the case, namely that the bike was non-working, had multiple faults and was located in the workshop where the defendant worked to repair the bike, and that the failure to repair the bike was caused by the defendant’s actions in the aforementioned incidents, and therefore the completion of the repairs was delayed.

The court held that the defendant’s mistake had caused several losses to the plaintiff, and that, based on the statements in the criminal judgment and the conclusion drawn from experience, the reason why the plaintiff did not benefit from the bicycle was that the defendant did not repair it without justifiable reasons and moved the license plate, rendering it unusable before the reporting date, and accordingly the court estimated that the plaintiff should pay AED35,000 for these damages.