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3 available 3 • View allLiability of a special power of attorney holder in the company
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Q: Hi,
I have been given a special power of attorney by my company owner to represent the company.
However, now that the company is not performing well financially and there is some outstanding to be cleared by the company to service providers like Etisalat and a few others as well.
In such circumstance when the company is liable to pay the amount and the owner is not coming back from India due to medical reasons, what is my position in all this?

Apr 6, 2019
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Cheque civil case pursuant to criminal case judgement
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Q: Hello
Hope you are well.
I had a case with 2 company cheques of AED 400k combined. I was sentenced for a year, which I did an appeal and was fined with 35K AED as a fine. I paid and I left the country.
Now, I have been served with a civil case and requested to attend the court on Monday. I can not be there now as I am outside the country but someone with a power of attorney will attend and request to postpone until I come.
I want to ask if I can hire your services to move the case to the company and not me as I am an employee and not the owner and the bank account is not mine, I am just authorized to sign.
I want to check if I will be stopped when I come to the country or none of that will happen until there is a verdict. Will there also be a travel ban? What are the next steps I should take?

Oct 19, 2018
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The liability of employee as a bank signatory
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Q: I was employed with a company which ran into troubles and stopped paying salaries.
I was an authorized signatory and I had endorsed cheques of a third party to a local bank as a signatory.
The bank filed a legal case against me, the owner of my company and the person whose cheques they are.
It has been 4 months since I resigned, cancelled my power of attorney and mentioned in the resignation to remove my names from all banks.
I have moved on and looking for a new job. I have opened a case against my ex-employer for my salaries and gratuity of 7.2 years.
I have also placed visa cancellation request and I found out about this case when I was moving to my father's visa.
Please advise what I can do, the cheque amount is AED 250k. I need to prove my innocence as I haven't taken the amount nor do I have this kind of amount to pay.
I am innocent in simple words. I was just a PA to the owner and was doing my duties while I was there.

Apr 29, 2018
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Laws & Regulations
2 available 2 • View allFederal Law No. (18) of 1993 Issuing the Commercial Transactions Law 19
This Law applies to merchants, as well as to all acts of commerce carried out in the UAE by any person even though he be not a trader. Commercial matters regarding which specific Federal laws are issued shall be subject to the provisions of such laws, and to the provisions hereof which do not contradict with said laws.
Sep 7, 1993
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Federal Law No. (5) of 1985 On the Civil Transactions Law of the United Arab Emirates 96
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.
Dec 15, 1985
148408

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