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Cheque civil case pursuant to criminal case judgement
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?
Dear Sir,
Thank you for getting in touch with me on this issue.
Please note that we will have to adduce evidence that you were merely having ostensible authority to sign the cheque with no actual power since you were not owner of the company.
Before advising further in detail, I will need to examine the papers in the civil case filed by the other side to ascertain what grounds they have made against you.
There will be no ban or detention against you when you fly into the UAE till the time the verdict is not out. After the verdict is out, there will be a travel ban against you.
Your next step should be to hire a lawyer to defend you in the civil proceedings and implead the company as a party defendant in the suit.
Our firm has dealt with many such cases and received favourable judgement for our client and I can assure that we can assist you in getting the same.
You may contact me on hari@alnassaradvocates.com or +971 52 9495731 for further discussion.
Regards,
Hari Wadhwana
