Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 20
State of Kuwait · Criminal Procedure · Ministry of Justice — Court of Cassation — Technical Office
English translation of the principle
The establishment of a special court to hear a particular type of offence, under procedures differing from those contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure and Trials. Its implication. That court has exclusive jurisdiction over the matters allocated to it without an express provision to that effect, and also has jurisdiction to try perpetrators and accomplices who are not ministers and to hear offences inseparably connected with the offences before it.
Arabic original
إنشاء محكمة خاصة لنظر نوع معين من الجرائم وبإجراءات تخالف تلك الواردة بقانون الإجراءات والمحاكمات الجزائية. مؤداه. انفراد هذه المحكمة بما خصصت له دون النص صراحة علي ذلك كما تختص بمحاكمة الفاعلين والشركاء من غير الوزراء ونظر الجرائم المرتبطة ارتباطاً لا يقبل التجزئة بالجرائم المعروضة عليها.Original Arabic judgment citations
(الطعن ١٣٨/١٩٩٧ جزائي جلسة ٢٢/١٢/١٩٩٧ القسم الرابع – المجلد السابع ص ١٨٠)
Source: Court of Cassation legal principles collection — Criminal Procedure — Ministry of Justice — Court of Cassation — Technical Office. Printed page 118. PDF pages: 111.
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