Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1070

The indictment is an official procedural document in the litigation. It must be signed by the person authorized to issue it. The reason therefor and its effect. Its lack of a signature results not only in its invalidity - 348 - Criminal Procedures and Trials but also in the court not being seised of it. The judgment's contravention of this. Its effect. Its absolute nullity, and that of what is based upon it, relating to public order. The Court of Appeal may not in this case address and determine the merits of the action. Its judgment is confined to declaring the appealed judgment void and the action inadmissible until the conditions for its admissibility are satisfied. 6- Public hearings and public pronouncement of judgment:-