When Muhammad Ali converted to Islam it was controversial. Ernie Terrell, an opponent, kept calling him Cassius. In 1967 Ali beat the hell out of the guy while yelling at him the whole time “What’s my name fool!?! What’s my name!?!” Ali, who won 2/3 of his fights by KO, never delivered a knock-out blow but rather won by decision. It’s been speculated that he did this in order to deliver a longer beating. As I read the Barazi response to the DIFIC counterclaim I imagine his attorney Imran Shafiq shouting “What’s my name fool!?! What’s my name!?!” at his computer while they delivering a solid beating to the DIFCI case all the while keeping his knock out blows in reserve.
The Barazi response opens with a description of Barazi’s background demonstrating that he is eminently qualified for the roles he held at DIFCA and DIFCI. It then goes into the detail of his compensation and his contract reaffirming what his salary was, its compensation, his entitlement to severance. Nothing too exciting. It begins to get interesting when it quotes the DIFIC Articles of Association to make the point that the Governor of the DIFC who is also the Chairman of DIFCI, that is to say Dr. Omar, who has the final say in the management of DIFCI and all other managers are appointed by and subject to his authority. This will be important later.
Next they use inconsistencies in the accounts of the DIFCI managers and the DIFCI counterclaim to shred the chronology and legality of DIFCIs actions in placing Barazi on the “investigative leave” and refusing to pay him. I highlighted some of this in an earlier post but the attack Shafiq launches is far more compelling and better researched. His alternate narrative is backed by quite a bit of documentation and a great many quotes from DIFC laws and DIFCI employee manuals. The core of the argument is that the claims of DIFCI are based on a manual that was not in force at the time of Barazi’s dismissal.
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