Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3666

The legislature’s requirement that a non-lawyer agent appearing for a litigant at hearings have a marital relationship, kinship or affinity up to the fourth degree is limited to attendance at hearings. Anyone other than these persons may - 719 - Agency draw up statements of claim, sign them and submit them to the Registry, unless the law requires a lawyer’s signature. Example: signature of a statement of claim by someone not included in Article 54 of the Law of Civil Procedure. Effect. No nullity.