Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1722

The civil claimant may not exercise the rights of the criminal proceedings. His participation therein is in his capacity as a person injured by the offence that had occurred at the time of requesting compensation for the damage. - The civil action has no relationship to the criminal proceedings except its ancillary nature. - The appellant’s challenge concerning the Public Prosecution’s failure to institute criminal proceedings against a person initially and the failure to hold him and the second accused criminally accountable when she had not joined the latter as a party to her civil action. Inadmissible. - 444 - Criminal