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Originally Posted by queenie40something
Hi Sue - the contract has to be in both English and Arabic - so I believe - or this will not stand for anything in Court of Law in Egpyt. Could be wrong though!
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The point about dual language is that the court will use this to make sure that non-arabic readers / speakers were fully aware of the conditions, which is normally Ok except that the transalations are rarely perfect, and the court will use the arabic version anyway I think, if there is any difference.
However if the contract is with an English speaking owner / developer you and they can choose which version to adopt prior to taking it to court.
In this case it would seem irrelevant if nothing has been signed.
There seems to be sufficient "intent" to purchase that it could go either way in court, and that is the tricky part here.
The potential issue with a less than perfect lawyer may help but I doubt it.
What is needed is a sympathetic, and dare I say it, ethically bound agent and developer, to simply play fair and pay back all the money less maybe a small "admin" charge.
Maybe one of the agents on the forum can tell you if YOUR agent is part of any professional organisation that has a code of conduct or something, and then you could approach this body with a complaint.
Still worth asking the developer to recover the commission since there never was a contract.
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