Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1956

The Court of Appeal. It adjudicates on the basis of the papers and conducts no investigation except such as it considers necessary to conduct. It may dispense with hearing prosecution witnesses. Its condition. The accused or his defence counsel expressly or implicitly accepts this. Its hearing them does not preclude it from relying in its judgment on their statements in the investigations. The reason for this. Those statements are before it for consideration.