Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 642

The general rule is that procedural legal rules apply with immediate effect to actions brought while they are in force, even if those actions arise from earlier facts. - Intervention of the Public Prosecution in certain personal status cases. Mandatory. These are exhaustively enumerated. Article 338 of Law 51 of 1984, including cases concerning persons lacking or having diminished legal capacity. - Failure of the Public Prosecution to intervene in cases where the law requires it. Its effect. Nullity of the judgment. The reason therefor. Its relation to public policy. - The first-instance judgment's determination of a petition for reconsideration filed after Law 51 of 1984 entered into force, without intervention by the Public Prosecution in a dispute concerning a person with diminished legal capacity - The appealed judgment's ruling that the first-instance judgment is void. Correct. The facts of the dispute in which reconsideration is sought predating the entry into force of the aforementioned law. This has no effect.