Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3120

Allowing competing companies to display their products in the association's central market, in breach of the investment contract binding the respondent and the appellant, which was declared void. The appellant's claim for an amount representing the loss it sustained as a result. Does not constitute restoration of the contracting parties to their position at the time of contracting as an effect of invalidity. It is considered a claim for compensation. - Invalidity of the contract resulting from the fault of one of its contracting parties while the other contracting party is free of any fault. The latter has the right to compensation for the damage caused to him by the invalidity. - Contribution by the person who suffered damage as a result of the invalidity of the contract to the fault that led to the invalidity, or his knowledge of its cause, or where he ought to have known of it. Its effect. There is no basis for his claim for compensation. An example concerning the appellant's lack of entitlement to claim compensation arising from the invalidity of the contract because it contributed to its invalidity.