Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1095

The Court of Appeal. Adjudicates on the basis of the papers and conducts only such investigation as it considers necessary to conduct. It may dispense with hearing the prosecution witnesses. Its condition: the express or implied acceptance thereof by the accused or his defence counsel. Its hearing them does not preclude its reliance in its judgment on their statements in the investigations. The rationale thereof. Those statements are before it for examination.