Hairdresser fined for damaging client’s hair

The Court of Cassation in Abu Dhabi has fined a beauty salon’s Arab hairstylist Dh10,000 and ordered him to be deported after he was found guilty of damaging a woman’s hair and burning her scalp, according to a report in the Arabic daily newspaper Emarat Al Youm.

The newspaper said the hairdresser had damaged the hair of one of the salon’s clients by pulling it several times in preparation for dyeing it and also caused burns to her scalp.

The victim filed a complaint against the beauty salon and the hairdresser.

Investigations indicated that the hairdresser was working at the beauty salon illegally because he was under its  sponsorship.

Also, the owner of the beauty centre knew that the hairdresser is working there without work permit from his sponsor. The owner of the salon also had no intention to sponsor the hairdresser.

Both the owner of the beauty centre and the hairdresser confessed to damaging the victim’s hair.

The public prosecution charged the hairdressser with damaging the scalp and hair of the victim and absconding from his sponsor to work for another.

The owner of the beauty centre was convicted of hiring a person not under his sponsorship.

The Court of First Instance fined the hairdresser Dh10,000 to be followed by deportation while fined the owner of the salon was fined Dh50,000 for hiring a person not under his sponsorship.

The two defendants went in appeal to the Court of Appeal which upheld the lower court’s verdict.

The two defendants then approached the Court of Cassation which upheld the judgment of the lower courts.