fubar, you wrote: "Mr Al Ali left the USA in early 2012 and as he has no assets in the country, there is almost no chance that this maid will see any of the money that the court awarded her in damages.
But at least she is now out of the hands of this evil man." I beg to differ that that is sufficient grounds for this "evil man" to be not n the capacity to comply with the financial verdict. In the UAE, as well as in Qatar, tens of thousands of cases (unreported by media, of course) of expats are either languishing in jail or staying outside the jail and on their own on how to get financial support to pay house rent and buy food and other necessities!!! The khafala system prohibits them from finding work without their employers' affirmation, so they cannot legally find work which in turn results to their loan payment defaults -- just a vicious cycle! Their travel ban is resolved only when their families finally raise enough money. In short, that navy guy is in the capacity to pay the monetary damages despite his being in a foreign soil.
fubar, you wrote: "Mr Al Ali left the USA in early 2012 and as he has no assets in the country, there is almost no chance that this maid will see any of the money that the court awarded her in damages.
But at least she is now out of the hands of this evil man." I beg to differ that that is sufficient grounds for this "evil man" to be not n the capacity to comply with the financial verdict. In the UAE, as well as in Qatar, tens of thousands of cases (unreported by media, of course) of expats are either languishing in jail or staying outside the jail and on their own on how to get financial support to pay house rent and buy food and other necessities!!! The khafala system prohibits them from finding work without their employers' affirmation, so they cannot legally find work which in turn results to their loan payment defaults -- just a vicious cycle! Their travel ban is resolved only when their families finally raise enough money. In short, that navy guy is in the capacity to pay the monetary damages despite his being in a foreign soil.