Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1364

Jurisdiction to annul administrative decisions vested in the Administrative Circuit. Its restriction to the decisions specified in Article (1) of Law 20 of 1981 establishing an administrative circuit at the Court of First Instance. Other administrative decisions not covered by the aforementioned article. Applications for their annulment fall outside the jurisdiction of the Administrative Circuit and the other circuits of the Court of First Instance, whose jurisdiction does not, in principle, extend to hearing administrative disputes. Reason therefor. - No obligation upon a court ruling that it lacks jurisdiction to refer the action to another circuit or another body. Condition thereof: that it ascertain, in accordance with the law, that jurisdiction and competence to hear the dispute are vested in that circuit or body. When it confines itself to ruling that it lacks jurisdiction.