Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 542

Judgments issued by the Court of First Instance are appealable if the dispute is of unassessed value or its value exceeds one thousand dinars. Otherwise, the judgment is final. Article 12 of Law 20 of 1981, as amended, establishing an administrative circuit at the Court of First Instance. The absence from the aforesaid law of a provision specifying how to assess the value of actions heard by the administrative circuit. Requires recourse in this regard to the provisions and rules of the Civil and Commercial Procedure Law. - The general rule is that actions have a known value. The exception: actions brought seeking relief not susceptible to valuation are considered of unknown value, and their value is deemed to exceed five thousand dinars in administrative actions if the relief sought cannot be valued pursuant to Articles 37 to 43 of the Civil and Commercial Procedure Law. An example. Concerning a request to annul the negative decision depriving a person of support.