What is the punishment for assaulting a lawyer during the course of their professional duties?
Whoever assaults a lawyer by hand or by threatening, insulting or defamatory speech in the course of performing his/her professional duties shall be penalized with imprisonment sentence for a term of not less than one year and/or a fine of not less than AED (50,000) fifty thousand dirhams, and not exceeding AED (300,000) three hundred thousand dirhams.