Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 229

Review by the administrative judiciary in weighing administrative decisions. Its limit. Its lawfulness or otherwise, without going beyond that to weigh the expediency of the decision, which falls within the administrative authority’s discretionary assessment of appropriateness, without review thereof. - The administrative judiciary may examine the facts on which the administrative decision was based to verify its conformity or nonconformity with the law. - The administration’s statement of reasons for its decisions. Not required. Its statement of a ground for the decision. Its implication. It is subject to review by the administrative judiciary to verify its conformity or nonconformity with the law and the effect thereof on the outcome reached by the decision, and whether or not it reasonably inferred that outcome from bases that produce it factually and legally and lead to it. A decision based on flawed reasoning. Its effect. It is void from its inception. The judgment’s reaching that conclusion. Its conformity with the correct application of the law.