Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 980

The investigation and trial procedures contained in Decree-Law 35 of 1990. Their difference from those contained in the Criminal Procedure and Trials Law. Reason therefor. - Establishment of a special court to hear a particular type of offence under procedures differing from those contained in the Criminal Procedure and Trials Law. Its effect. That court alone has jurisdiction over what has been assigned to it, without an express provision to that effect; it also has jurisdiction to try perpetrators and accomplices who are not ministers and to hear offences inseparably connected with the offences before it.