Q: We are purchasing some taxable material from the UAE, and our main contractor agrees to pay this material cost on behalf of us. So, in which name should the supplier issue the Invoice, the name of our main contractor or our name? And also please clarify Input Tax Claim method.

Q: Hello, my husband is an engineer, and he is in Dubai since November 2, 2016. He is a foreign citizen from London. He did a contract with a company in Dubai (oil pipes). He got paid the 2nd week of November for the job that is supposed to be finished in 4 or 6 weeks. However, the job couldn't be done in time because the manager of the company did not provide him with enough employees and equipment to finish the job on time. This manager does not care if my husband has to remain there forever. Unfortunately, my husband travelled alone with my daughter because it was supposed to be for short time. On February 2017 my daughter got sick, and she was hospitalized. When my husband went to the offshore to pick up his staff he couldn't find his passport because the manager collected it from the offshore when my husband was in the hospital with my daughter. When he arrived, the police was waiting for my husband because the manager accused him of stealing money from his office which is not true.

Q: Hi, My mother was visiting Dubai and she slipped and fell as she stepped outside my sister's apartment. The floor outside the apartment was slippery and wet, the cleaners had removed the mat at the entrance of the door and failed to dry the floor or put any warning signs in that area. My mother suffered severe injuries, most serious being a fracture at the neck of the femur, which required a surgery. She did not have travel insurance. I approached the facilities management company about this, and they got the cleaning contractor to settle the hospital bill. However, my mother has a permanent rod and screw holding her hip and femur together and will never be the same again, so I want to claim compensation. Do I have a case to claim compensation for personal injury? Who is at fault, the facilities management company or the cleaning company who provides the cleaning service on their behalf? Both companies have been ignoring my letters about compensation.

س: أوقف المقاول من الباطن العمل مستندًا في ذلك إلى المادتين 246 و 247 من القانون المدني الإماراتي بسبب تأخر المقاول الرئيسي في السداد (الدفع المسبق والمدفوعات المؤقتة). لكن ما يشغل اهتمام المقاول الرئيسي هو أنه لم يستلم المستند المطلوب (وهو ضمان البنك القدم) لمعالجة الدفعة المقدمة في الوقت المحدد ولم يتم الاتفاق على مسودة خطاب الاعتماد الذي تم إصداره إلى المقاول من الباطن في الوقت المحدد نظرًا لوجود العديد من الخلافات حول بعض ما فيه. دفع المقاول الرئيسي الدفعة المقدمة إلى المقاول من الباطن في غضون 90 يومًا من استلام ضمان البنك المقدم مرجعًا سبب التأخير إلى إعادة تخصيص المال بسبب التأخير في تقديم الضمان البنكي المقدم واتفاقية مسودة خطاب الاعتماد. إذا أراد المقاول الرئيسي فرض عقوبة بسبب التأخير من قبل المقاول من الباطن، فمن الذي حجته ستؤخذ في الحسبان؟ يرجى تقديم النصيحة. شكرًا لك.  

س: نحن شركة مقاولات مقرها في إمارة دبي. لقد أبرمنا عقدًا مع عميلنا منذ عامين، وسدد العميل الدفعة المقدمة في البداية. لقد تسببوا في تأخير العمل في الموقع بسبب عدم تمكننا من متابعة العمل خلال هذه المدة. لقد أرسلوا لنا مؤخرًا فواتير مقابل التأخير ولكنها ليست جاهزة ويحاولون في الوقت الحالي إنهاء العقد معنا. كما يطلبون منا سداد الدفعة المقدمة في شهر أبريل 2018. لا تتضمن عقودنا أي بنود لضمان الدفعات المقدمة أو التعويضات المقطوعة. هل لا يزال بإمكانهم المطالبة باسترداد الدفعة المقدمة على الرغم من أننا لسنا المسؤولين عن حدوث التأخير؟ ما هي الخيارات المتاحة أمامنا من أجل المضي قدمًا في هذا الموقف؟

س: اشترى أخي شقة من الباطن من المالك لأن أقساطها لم تُسدد بالكامل ودفع له ثمنها المُتَّفق عليه ثم ضاع العقد من أخي والشقة لم يسكن فيها حتى الآن. كيف يمكن إثبات الحق فيها؟ وكيف يمكن بيعها أو تأجيرها لشخص آخر؟

Q: Greetings, We have issued a Letter of Purchase Order (LPO) to our subcontractor for a project. The payment from the main contractor has been delayed. To speed up the process, we have asked the main contractor to pay the subcontractor on our behalf through a No Objection Certificate (NOC). Since the LPO is from our company, the subcontractor has asked us to give a security cheque in case the payment is further delayed. We have issued the cheque along with a letter stating that they have to return the cheque upon receiving the cheque from the main contractor. The guarantee cheque was used after 3 months even after getting the payment from the main contractor. The subcontractor has started communicating with the main contractor without keeping us in the loop. Due to cash flow problems, we were supposed to leave the project. Can I approach the court asking for the same/twice the amount as compensation due to a breach of trust and a similar amount as a conflict of interest?

The provisions of this law, promulgating UAE Civil Code, govern the civil transactions in the United Arab Emirates. The commercial transactions remain subject to the laws and regulations applicable in their regard.