Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1683

The judge’s signature on the document of the judgment he issued. A condition for its existence. Absence of the signature. The judgment is deemed nonexistent. - The judgment must include a statement of the incident warranting punishment, the circumstances in which it occurred, the evidence from which the court derived the conviction, and the manner of its reasoning therefrom. - The challenged judgment’s confining its ruling to adopting the grounds of the nonexistent first-instance judgment, without establishing independent grounds. Insufficiency. Example. - The authoritative version of a judgment is its original copy signed by the presiding judge and the clerk.