Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2049

The draft judgment. Must be signed by all judges of the panel who heard the pleadings and participated in deliberation and delivery of the judgment. The reason for this. Ensuring that the judgment is rendered after deliberation encompassing its reasons and operative part. Contravention thereof. Its effect. Nullity of the draft and of the judgment rendered on its basis. - The appellate judgment's reference, in its reasons and operative part, to the void first-instance judgment whose draft was signed by the presiding judge of the panel that rendered it without its other two members. Its effect. Its nullity. Even if it sets out reasons of its own. The reason: what is founded on a nullity is itself void.