Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 378

Compensation for moral damage. The absence of a criterion exhaustively defining its cases. Its breadth encompassing its various manifestations. Its inclusion of every injury caused by fault that harms a person’s honour and reputation or affects his emotions, sensibilities and feelings. The basis thereof. - The criminal court’s rejection of the compensation claim and acquittal of the respondent of the charge of assault by beating. Precludes the civil court from considering this claim because it has already been adjudicated.