Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3423

Service on a person at his workplace. When he is absent from the workplace, the person effecting service must deliver the copy to whoever states that he is an employee at that workplace. His refusal to receive it or the absence of anyone to whom it may validly be delivered. It must be delivered on the same day to the officer in charge of the police station within whose precinct the domicile or workplace of the person to be served is situated, and not to any other police station. Contravention thereof. Its effect. Invalidity of service. Example concerning the invalidity of the respondent’s service on the appellant of notice of transfer of the tenancy relationship to him at his workplace in Hawalli, and the process server’s delivery—when no one was present at the workplace—of a copy of the notice to the officer in charge of Jabriya Police Station, within whose precinct the appellant’s workplace was not situated. Challenging the judgment: