Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 392

Authority to annul administrative decisions vested in the Administrative Circuit. Limited to the decisions stipulated 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 the first place, extend to hearing administrative disputes. The reason for that. - A court ruling that it lacks jurisdiction is under no obligation to refer the action to another circuit or - 105 - Administrative another body. The condition for that: that it ascertain, in accordance with the law, that authority and jurisdiction to hear the dispute are vested in that circuit or body. When it confines itself to ruling that it lacks jurisdictional authority.