KCC 419/2017
This case involved a decision on exemption from paying rent. A key point was whether the claimant had received appropriate notice of the decision. Their legal representative had been at the meeting but they had not been formally informed of it.
Background
A claimant filed a case against two defendants before the court. They requested the court to dismiss the first defendant’s decision by which the second defendant had been exempted from paying rent. They also requested the court to order the second defendant to pay 2700 Dinars.
The court refused the case because it had not been submitted within the legal deadline.
The claimant appealed the ruling before the court of appeal. The court upheld the appealed ruling.
The claimant appealed the ruling before the court of cassation. The claimant said in their grounds of appeal that that the ruling had erred in the application of law. They said that the court had considered the presence of their legal representative at the meeting in which the decision had been issued as notice. They said that this violated the law.