State of Morocco et al v Amirimatix Country/Territory Morocco Date May 5, 2014 Source UNEP, InforMEA Court name Court of Cassation Seat of court Rabat Language English Abstract The court established from the facts of the dispute and from the legal expert’s report that the administration is liable for the damages caused bythe flood because it did not not take into account all factors while building the barrier and the creation of the waterway to discharge water, accordinglylack of taking necessary precautions to avoid such accidents by doing deep technical and geometrical studies that think about the morphologicalnature of the area and the weakness of discharging water given that the concrete waterway could not handle that, as well as the force of seatide which limits the speed of discharging water and stands as a barrier before it. The court then when ruled to compensate the harmed companyits decision was well grounded even if did not adopt the argument of the administrative court in this matter but rather based its ruling on a newargument. Therefore the defense of the plaintiff regarding the insufficiency of reasoning and distortion of facts were not legally based. Available in Court of Cassation’s Decisions on the environment