Case Summary: Supreme Court (Civil Circuit B) Contestation 95/8108/2023 (Internal Brain Injuries from a Single Blow Are One Constructive Amah)

The Supreme Court held that a blow causing damage to the brain or the membranes surrounding it is compensated as a single constructive amah head wound, entitled to one-third of the diyat under Royal Decree 118/2008, regardless of how many internal effects it produces. Because only visible external head wounds are counted separately, a subdural haematoma and a subarachnoid haemorrhage arising from the same trauma cannot be compensated twice as an amah and a damighah.