Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 28

The jurisdiction of the criminal court. The general rule is that it is confined to hearing the offences brought before it. - 120 - Criminal Procedures and Trials. The exception. Its jurisdiction to hear the civil action arising from those offences. The condition for this. That it hear the civil action only as ancillary to the criminal action. This means. It cannot validly be brought independently before the criminal court. The act being unpunishable by law. Its effect. The criminal court has no jurisdiction over the action and must rule that it lacks jurisdiction. - The criminal court’s jurisdiction to hear the ancillary civil action. Its basis: the connection between the criminal and civil actions and the unity of the cause on which each is founded.