Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 349

Clear and manifest provisions of law. It is impermissible to adopt anything contradicting or restricting them, as that would create, through interpretation, a rule differing from the legislator's intent. - Inquiry into the rationale and reasons for legislation. There is no room for it except where the provision is ambiguous. - The legislator's exhaustive specification, in clear and manifest language, of the judicial documents required to be signed by an admitted lawyer, and provision for nullity in the event of non-compliance. Article 18 of Law 42 of 1964 concerning the Regulation of the Legal Profession, as amended. A joinder pleading falls outside this specification. Its implication: its validity does not require that it be signed by a lawyer. The challenged judgment's adherence to this view and rejection of the plea of nullity of the joinder pleading for lack of a lawyer's signature, by analogy with the statement of claim. Correct.