Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 897

Documents in criminal matters, including the summons to appear. The manner of their service. - Service through the Public Prosecution. What is required for it to be validly effected. Reasonable investigative effort. Its absence. Its effect. Nullity. - Determination of the appeal in the accused's absence and without valid service upon him of notice of the hearing scheduled for his trial. Its effect. Nullity of the trial proceedings in respect of the appellant and another convicted person whose appeal was not admitted, owing to the unity of the incident and the proper administration of justice. - Quashing the judgment for procedural nullity in respect of the appellant. Its effect. The obligation to quash it in respect of the person whose appeal was not admitted as to form. The reason for that: the unity of the incident and the proper administration of justice.