Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3689

The right to report crimes. Among the rights permitted to persons. The mere falsity of the report and occurrence of damage to the person reported against. Insufficient to render the reporting person liable for compensation. He must have intended malice and harm to those reported against, or the reporting must have involved haste, recklessness and lack of caution. The reporting person's belief in the truth of his report or his having suspicions justifying the report. No grounds for holding him liable. Mere inability to prove the reported facts. Does not conclusively establish the falsity of the report. The reason therefor: judgments must be based on certainty and conviction, not conjecture and possibility. - A judgment's reliance on grounds that are not in themselves sufficient to establish certain knowledge, untainted by doubt, of the falsity of the report and the intention of malice and harm behind it, and the absence of binding effect of the Public Prosecution's decisions to close the matter before the civil courts. Its subsequent ruling requiring the appellant to pay compensation on the basis that a malicious report was established. Deficiency and unsound inference.