Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3684

Reporting crimes that occur to the Public Prosecution or the police is a right accorded to every person, indeed a duty incumbent upon him and upon every public employee who learns of them. Reason thereof. No liability arises from exercising this right unless the reported incident is established to be untrue, or the report was made in bad faith with a view to malice and vindictiveness against the person reported, or was made hastily, recklessly and without caution. - The reporting person's belief in the truth of the matter reported. Excludes his liability. The reporting person's prior verification of the truth of what he reports. Not required. - Characterizing the act on which the compensation claim is based as constituting fault or not. A matter for the court of merits. - The judgment's conclusion that the female appellant was hasty in reporting before verifying the truth of what she reported, and that the respondent was summoned to have his statements heard, although exercising the right to report crimes does not require the reporting person to verify beforehand the truth of what is reported, as this falls within the investigating authority's competence. This vitiates it by an error in the application of the law. Example.