Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 455

Permanent loss of the function of an organ is deemed equivalent to its severance or loss. - The forensic medical report’s conclusion that the eye injury left a permanent disability consisting of loss of sight, warranting half the diyah. The judgment’s ruling that this injury does not warrant half the diyah on the ground that he did not lose all sight in the eye. Renders it defective for contravention of the law and requires its cassation.