Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 314

Applications for annulment of administrative decisions. The legislature’s allocation of a circuit of the Court of First Instance to hear them. - The time limit for challenging administrative decisions by an action for annulment. Sixty days from the date of publication of the challenged decision, notification thereof to the person concerned, or establishment of his certain knowledge thereof. Applications for annulment provided for in items Second, Third, and Fourth of Article One of Decree-Law 20 of 1981 are inadmissible unless a grievance has first been lodged with the authority that issued them or its superior authority and the period for deciding the grievance has been awaited before recourse to the courts. - Certain knowledge of an administrative decision that starts the time limits for challenge or grievance. Its meaning. The person concerned’s knowledge of the content and substance of the decision, whatever the source of his knowledge. Assessment of this knowledge. A matter exclusively for the court of merits. Its condition.