Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1151

Draft judgment. It must be signed by all judges of the panel who heard the pleadings and participated in deliberation and issuance of the judgment. The reason therefor. Ensuring that the judgment is issued after deliberation encompassing its reasons and operative part. Contravention thereof. Its effect. Nullity of the draft and of the judgment rendered on its basis. - The appellate judgment's reference, in its reasons and operative part, to the first-instance judgment that is void because its draft was signed by the presiding judge of the panel that rendered it without its other 2 members. Its effect. Its nullity, even if it states reasons of its own. The reason therefor. What is founded on a nullity is itself void.