Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 21

Procedural laws. Scope of their application. - Laws amending jurisdiction. Their application with immediate effect, just as with the Procedures Law. - The law's transfer of a court's jurisdiction to another court. Its effect. The latter has jurisdiction over the action, and, after the law takes effect, the court whose jurisdiction was amended may only refer the action pending before it to the competent court in the condition it was in when brought. Condition thereof. That the action has not been determined. Example concerning the scope of application of Law 35 of 1990 concerning the Trial of Ministers.