Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1492

Premeditation. A mental state existing within the perpetrator. Its derivation from the facts and circumstances from which its existence is inferred. It is established by his preparing the means of the offence and drawing up the plan for its execution calmly and deliberately before committing it. Its establishment is not precluded by the execution plan being contingent on an event occurring or - 421 - Criminal Procedures and Trials dependent on a condition. Examination of its existence or absence. A matter of fact. So long as it is reasonable. Example. - The judgment's negation of the respondent's premeditation to kill the female victim on unreasonable grounds. It vitiates it through unsound inference and requires its cassation.