Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1519

The doctrine of unforeseen circumstances. Conditions for its application. The contracting party incurs a grave loss exceeding the customary bounds of dealings and seriously disrupting the economics of the contract. The criterion of loss. Objective. Assessment of the loss. Within the exclusive purview of the trial court. There is no basis for claiming compensation on that ground if the loss is slight relative to the total value of the contract. Example.