Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 705

Deeming an action or appeal as never having been brought for failure to summon within the statutory period. Conditions for imposing this sanction. Assessment of whether to impose this sanction is within the unfettered discretion of the court of merits. - Service of an appeal. Its validity requires: that it be effected on the party personally, at his original domicile, at his workplace, or at his elected domicile stated in the document serving the judgment. - Validity of service of an appeal at the elected domicile. Its criterion. The exception. - Service of the papers necessary for the conduct of the action at the agent's premises is recognized only at the level of litigation for which he was appointed.