Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 899

The Administrative Circuit of the Court of First Instance. Its jurisdiction regarding applications for annulment of administrative decisions concerning civil servants. Confined to applications for annulment of decisions concerning appointment, promotion, termination of service, and imposition of disciplinary penalties. Applications for annulment of decisions transferring employees. Outside its jurisdiction unless they embody a disguised decision falling within its jurisdiction. Reason: what matters is what the administrative authority actually intended, not how it described its decision.