Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1642

The employer and the subcontractor. No contract links them. The effect thereof. The latter may claim from the former, by an indirect action, what the former owes the main contractor. He also has a direct action and a preferential right against the former to spare him competition from the main contractor’s creditors. Articles 682 and 683 of the Civil Code. The condition for this. The employer’s debt to the main contractor must arise from the contract for works, and upon the action being brought he is precluded from paying the main contractor.