Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1354

The penalty prescribed for a juvenile for crimes punishable by fixed-term imprisonment is imprisonment not exceeding half the statutory maximum. Its import. Young age is a statutory mitigating excuse enumerated exhaustively. Necessary consequence thereof. - Settlement or pardon granted by the victim. Its effect. It produces the effects resulting from a judgment of acquittal. - The legal guardian of a minor or an absent person may settle with or pardon the accused. - The judgment's disregard of the legal guardian's waiver renders it defective. Example.