The Dubai Rental Disputes Center, the judicial arm of Land Department, disclosed that the owner of real estate in Dubai waived an amount of AED 90,000 that the tenant did not pay owing to her humanitarian conditions.
HH Judge Abdulqader Mousa, Chairman of Rental Disputes Center, referring to the humanitarian situation of the tenant sentenced to prison, said that she absconded because of her inability to pay the rent. Further it resulted in several issues; the violation of the law of residence in the country for complete four years, until she was finally arrested to implement the verdict.
Judge Mousa called on the insolvent tenants to follow the procedures set out by the rental disputes law and not to evade the execution of the sentences, so as not to exacerbate the problems for them. He pointed that some tenants paralyzed their own lives, because they chose to not follow the legal line, and find content in running away from the enforcement of the verdict. This was what exactly happened with this tenant disrupting her life and the lives of her children by evading.
He stressed that there were many leasehold disputes wherein the issue was linked to families undergoing humanitarian circumstances. Enforcement of judgment on such cases should be suspended temporarily, letting the RDC to negotiate with the landlords to keep these families in the residential property units until an appropriate measure is found to solve the problem.
The RDC Chairman Mousa urged people undergoing similar cases to follow legal steps in rental disputes, bearing in mind to figure out a solution for their problems, rather than eluding them.
"There are cases brought before the RDC judges where the amount of money owed is not big, possibly resulting in imprisonment of the defendants for AED 10,000 or less," he said, noting that many prisoners in these cases are set free immediately after paying their dues, or by contacting the owner of residential real estate unit to take his consent to waive the amount.
“Some of such cases shall be referred to “Yadul Khair Committee” at the RDC to observe their situations, and financial assistance, therefore, is provided for the deserved cases”, explaining that some of the rental issues should be dealt with in the spirit of the law, as we could not evict the tenant because of the humanitarian circumstance”, judge Mousa concluded.