Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 598

The administrative judiciary’s activity in weighing administrative decisions. It must stop at the limit of legality or illegality within the scope of legal review, and it may examine the facts upon which the decision was based to verify its conformity with the law, as they are among the elements of the existence of an administrative decision. It must not go beyond this to weigh the expediency of the decision or matters within the administration’s discretionary assessment of appropriateness. - What matters in characterizing an administrative decision. Its content and meaning, not its designation and form. - The Supreme Council for Higher Education. Its competence to establish conditions for admitting new students and to determine tuition fees, the manner of their payment, and the conditions for exemption therefrom. - Changes, whether increases or decreases, to registration charges approved by the Supreme Council for Higher Education require their publication a full academic semester before they begin to be applied. The implication thereof. No penalty may be imposed on a student who delays payment of registration fees other than what is stipulated in the Course Regulations. - Non-retroactivity of administrative decisions. A fundamental principle of legality. An example.