Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 821

The civil claimant has no power to exercise the rights of the criminal action. His intervention therein is in his capacity as a person harmed by the crime that had occurred at the time compensation for the harm was sought. - The civil action has no relationship to the criminal action except its ancillary nature. - The appellant’s challenge concerning the Public Prosecution’s failure to institute criminal proceedings against a person initially and failure to hold him and the second accused criminally liable, while she had not joined the latter in her civil action. Inadmissible.