Court orders construction company to compensate citizen with BD20,000 in damages

TDT | Manama                                                     

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

The Bahrain High Civil Court has ruled that a construction company must compensate a citizen with BD20,000, along with a 2% annual delay interest from the contract termination date until full payment.

The court also ordered the company to cover the legal expenses and attorney’s fees, according to lawyer Zeinab Ali Maden. In the details of the lawsuit, the lawyer stated that her client (the plaintiff) had entered into a construction contract with the accused construction company.

The company was supposed to build a villa in exchange for a payment of BD73,500. Although the plaintiff paid BD20,000, the company failed to complete the work despite being notified. Furthermore, the work carried out by the company was defective and not by the agreed-upon terms.

Contract

Consequently, both parties agreed to terminate the contract, with the company agreeing to refund BD17,500.

However, another termination agreement was subsequently signed, with the company undertaking to repay the amount of BD20,000.

Nevertheless, the company refused to make the payment, causing the plaintiff to suffer emotional damages due to the company’s breach of contractual obligations.

Maden explained that Article 128 of the Civil Law stipulates that “the contract is the law between the contracting parties, and neither of them may unilaterally revoke or amend its provisions, except within the limits allowed by the agreement or prescribed by the law.”

Additionally, Article 584 of the same law states that “a work contract is an agreement whereby one party undertakes to perform work for the other party in exchange for compensation, without being a subordinate or a representative.”

Authenticity

The accused company denied the authenticity of the presented photos and documents accompanying the lawsuit. However, the plaintiff's representative submitted the original documents to the court, and no objections were raised against their validity.