KCC 2285/2020

The initial case had ignored a failure to refund a guarantee for workers who were no longer working for the company. A key issue was whether a case should have been dismissed when the lawyer of one party had been unable to attend because of COVID.

Background

A company filed a case against some defendants before the court. The company requested the court to order the defendants to pay 29000 Dinars. The company said that they had signed an agreement with the first defendant in order to provide 116 employees to work as cleaners for the second defendant. The company said that they paid the first defendant a refundable guarantee as part of the contract signed between the two parties. The company said that the first defendant failed to pay the refundable guarantee although the employees were no longer working for them.

The court dismissed the case.

The company appealed the ruling before the court of appeal. The court dismissed the appeal and upheld the appealed ruling.