Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 54

Procedural laws. Their scope of application. - Laws amending jurisdiction. Their application with immediate effect, in the same manner as procedural law. - A law transferring the jurisdiction of one court to another. Its effect. The latter has jurisdiction over the case, and after the law enters into force the court whose jurisdiction has been amended may do nothing other than refer the case pending before it, in the same state as it was when instituted, to the competent court. Its condition: that the case has not been decided. An example concerning the scope of application of the provisions of Law No. 35 of 1990 concerning the Trial of Ministers. - 20 - Penal Law