BCC 273/2015
The initial dispute involved an employer's claims for compensation for amounts they had paid to recruit and train an employee who had resigned without justification. The key issue was the appeal was filed by a lawyer who lacked the status to do so.
Background
An employer filed a case against an employee before the court. She requested the court to order the employee to pay 1500 Dinars. She said that she had recruited the employee and trained her but the latter left the job without justification.
The court dismissed the case.
The employee appealed the ruling before the court of appeal. The court upheld the appealed ruling.
The employee appealed the ruling before the court of cassation.
Decision
The court of cassation said that Article 3, 12, 14 of Bahrain Decree-Law No. 8/1989 stipulated that the person who filed an appeal before the court of cassation should be a lawyer who had the right to do so. The court said that the documents of the case revealed that the person who had files the appeal had no right to do so.
The court dismissed the appeal.