Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3704

The offence of defamation. For its existence, it suffices that its expressions be directed in a form that makes it easy to understand their intended meaning and identify the person concerned by the defamation. The court's discerning from the substance of the expressions who is intended and its ability to infer this without strained reasoning or effort. The person responsible must be held accountable even if the article does not contain that person's name. - Expressions in an article that aim at disparagement, are inconsistent with constructive criticism, and go beyond the bounds of such permissible criticism to the point of undermining moral standing and debasing reputation and dignity. Their perpetrator is subject to civil liability entailing compensation. The challenged judgment's conclusion that tort liability, with all its elements, has ceased. Defective inference leading it into an error in the application of the law.