Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3488

The employer and the subcontractor. No contractual relationship binds them. The effect thereof. The latter may claim from the former what the former owes to the main contractor by an indirect action. He also has a direct action and a preferential right against the former to spare him competition with the main contractor's creditors. The condition therefor. The employer's debt to the main contractor must arise from the contract for works, and upon the filing of the action he is precluded from paying the main contractor.