Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1834

Methods of challenging criminal judgments are governed by the law in force when the judgment challenged was rendered. - The rule is that the provisions of laws apply to events occurring from their effective date, unless they contain an express provision applying their provisions to some or all events occurring before their effective date. - 497 - Criminal Procedures and Trials - Article 24 of Law 3/2006 concerning Publications and Publishing provided for the permissibility of challenging, by cassation, judgments in publishing misdemeanors rendered by the Court of Appeal, without providing for this to apply to judgments rendered before its entry into force. - An appeal by cassation against a judgment rendered in the civil action ancillary to a misdemeanor of defamation through publication before the entry into force of Law 3/2006. Impermissible. 7- Hearing and determining the appeal:-