Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2939

The lawyer’s relationship with his client. The agency provisions stipulated in the Civil Code apply thereto. - Law 42 of 1964 concerning regulation of the legal profession does not regulate the means by which a lawyer’s agency contract terminates. Its implication. It terminates for the same reasons as an agency contract stipulated in the Civil Code. - Agency is a revocable contract. Its implication. The principal may dismiss his agent at any time and may restrict his agency even before completion of the entrusted work or expiry of its specified term. This pertains to public policy, and no agreement to the contrary is permissible. The exception. Where the agency is granted in the interest of the agent or a third party, the agent may not in that case be dismissed or his agency restricted without the consent of the person in whose interest the agency was granted. - Dismissal of the agent. Its effect. Termination of the agency. The principal is not liable therefor unless his dismissal of the agent was without acceptable justification or at an inappropriate time, and he is obliged to compensate him for the damage suffered as a result of his dismissal. The judgment’s departure from this. Renders it defective and requires its cassation.