Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 401

Allowing competing companies to display their products in the association's central market in violation of the investment contract binding the respondent and the appellant, which was declared void. The appellant's claim for a sum representing the loss it sustained as a result. It does not constitute restoration of the contracting parties to the position they occupied upon contracting as a consequence of nullity. It is regarded as a claim for compensation. - Nullity of the contract as a result of the fault of one contracting party while the other contracting party is free of all fault. The latter has the right to compensation for damage caused to him by the nullity. - Contribution by the person suffering damage as a result of the contract's nullity to the fault leading to nullity, or his knowledge of its cause, or his having been required to know it. Its effect. There is no basis for his claim for compensation. An example concerning the appellant's lack of entitlement to claim compensation arising from the contract's nullity because of its contribution to that nullity.