DCC 58/2003
Type
Case
Court
Dubai Court of Cassation
Jurisdiction
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Taxonomy
Passports, Rights & Duties of Employees & Employers, Litigation Procedure & Practice
Copyright
LexisNexis
Decision date
20 Apr 2004
Catchwords
Passport – Rights and Duties of the Employer and Employee – Court Fees – Litigation Procedure
This case involved a request by an employee that their employer return their passport. The key issue was whether court fees should have been paid in this case or the case rejected.
Background
An employee filed a case against a company and requested the court order the company to give up his passport. The employee stated the company had received the passport in order to get a working permit for him.
The court ruled that the company should return the employee's passport.
The company appealed the ruling before the court of appeal. The court rejected the appeal and upheld the appealed ruling.
Decision
The company appealed the ruling before the court of cassation and stated in its grounds of appeal that the ruling had erred in the application of law because as this case did not fall under the mandate of Article 6 of Federal Law No. 8/1980, the fees of the case should have been paid or it should have been rejected.