Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 138

Procedural laws. Their application to actions not yet adjudicated or procedures not yet completed before their effective date. Exception: provisions amending time limits. Its condition: commencement of the time limit before the effective date of those provisions. What is meant thereby: provisions amending a time limit stipulated in an earlier procedural law. Time limits not previously stipulated. This exception does not apply to them. - 32 - Law - The introduction in Article 70 of the Code of Procedure, following its amendment by Law 36 of 2002, of a period of 30 days for the plaintiff to resume his action after a stay. The previous provision's failure to specify a period for resumption. Its effect: the exception in paragraph (b) of Article 1 of the Code of Procedure does not apply. Its consequence: the aforementioned period begins to run from the effective date of the newly introduced provision. Basis thereof. Example. - Newly introduced procedural time limits do not run until the effective date of the provision introducing them.