Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2610

Laws relating to prescription. Their application, from their effective date, to every prescriptive period that has not been completed. - The three-month period stipulated in the third paragraph of Article 33 of the former Press and Publications Law No. 3 of 1961, within which an action for compensation must be brought. A forfeiture period. It must be observed before the civil court or the criminal court; otherwise, the right to compensation lapses. The challenged judgment's failure - 504 - to observe this and its application of the new Law No. 3 of 2006 despite completion of the prescriptive period before its entry into force. A violation of the law requiring its cassation.