Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 144

An administrative decision is that by which the administration expresses its binding will, by virtue of its authority, to produce a particular legal effect, whenever this is possible and legally permissible and is motivated by a public interest. - The administrative decision. What distinguishes it from acts of the administration falling outside the jurisdiction of the Administrative Circuit. - Understanding the acts or decisions issued by the administrative authority and giving them their true legal characterization. Within the authority of the trial court. It is not bound in this respect by the characterizations assigned to them by the litigants. The reason therefor: characterization is determined by the substance and purpose of the act, not its wording and form.