Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 217

The supremacy of national law. Its necessary consequence. Refraining from applying any foreign legislation. The judge must resort to interpreting national legislation if it is unclear to the judge, through the various legal methods of interpretation, including reference to its place in foreign legislation if that legislation was its source. It is not permissible to depart from this by applying another special rule contained in that legislation which the national legislature did not choose to adopt among its provisions.