Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 28

The judgment rendered in the criminal action convicting the accused and ordering him to pay provisional compensation in the civil action. Its binding authority before the civil courts. It is not confined to what it decided in the criminal action but extends to its determination of the fundamental issue it resolved in the civil action concerning liability for compensation. The effect of this. Preclusion of discussion of the issue decided by the judgment in the action for supplementary compensation.