Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 504

A judgment annulling an administrative decision. Necessarily entails extinguishing the administrative decision from the time of its issuance and deeming it never to have existed. The reason for this: it reveals the illegality that attended the decision from its issuance. The implication of this: the disappearance of all legal effects produced by the annulled decision and the administrative authority's obligation to perform in full everything the judgment requires of it. The administrative authority must promptly adopt an affirmative stance by issuing the decision necessary to implement the annulment judgment. What it undertakes in this regard is no more than a purely implementing decision confirming the legal effect achieved by virtue of the annulment judgment. It must also adopt a negative stance by refraining from taking any measure or issuing any decision inconsistent with what the judgment adjudicated in its operative part and with the essential grounds underlying it that relate and are connected to that operative part. - Understanding the contested decision, ascertaining its nature and the extent to which it possesses the elements of an administrative decision, and establishing or negating the existence of fault giving rise to the administrative authority's liability. Within the authority of the trial court, provided its assessment is reasonable. - An action for compensation for administrative decisions:-