Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 177

The offender in the offence of beating, wounding or causing harm. Is liable for all consequences likely to occur as a result of his criminal conduct, even if indirect. - The appellant’s pushing the victim forcefully, causing him to fall on the stairs and consequently sustain the injuries described in the forensic medical report, and the judgment’s demonstrating the causal link between the act and the disability left in the victim through what the forensic medical report established, namely that the injury led to a disability. Sound and sufficient to establish criminal liability and the existence of a causal relationship. The complaint in this regard. Misplaced.