Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 630

The administrative judiciary. Its jurisdiction over administrative contracts derives from the relationships they contain that fall within the domains of public law. - Contracts concluded by the administration are not all administrative contracts. The consequence thereof. A contract that is not administrative is not subject to the jurisdiction of the administrative judiciary. - The Administrative Circuit. It alone has jurisdiction to hear disputes arising between administrative bodies and the other contracting party in concession contracts, public works contracts, supply contracts, and any other administrative contract. The enumeration of those matters in Article 2 of Decree-Law 20 of 1981 is illustrative, not exhaustive. - Classification of a contract as an administrative contract. Its condition. One of its parties must be a public legal person contracting in its capacity as a public authority, the contract must relate to the activity of a public service with the purpose of operating or organizing it, and it must be characterized by the adoption of public-law methods in the exceptional terms contained in these contracts. - Giving contracts concluded by the administrative authority their correct legal characterization as administrative or civil contracts. Its criterion. - 167 - Administrative