Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1477

The offence of grievous harm. Its elements. The instruments that cause grievous harm are listed by way of example. Determining what falls within these instruments. Within the authority of the trial court. Its condition: its assessment must be sound and not inconsistent with reason and logic. Contravention of this. Defective inference and error in the application of the law. An example concerning a piece of iron and a heated iron. - 418 - Criminal Procedures and Trials - The judgment's omission to state the basis for considering the two instruments of assault non-dangerous, and its failure to state its reasons for rejecting the forensic physician's report characterising the injuries sustained by the female victim as grievous harm. Deficient reasoning.