Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 4624

The Expropriation Department's delay in implementing the exchange procedures. Establishment that, when the right to compensation for the delay arose, it was subordinate to the Municipal Council, one of the two organs of Kuwait Municipality. Its transfer to the Ministry of Finance effective from the date Law No. 2 of 2006 came into force. Its absence of any provision indicating that the Ministry of Finance succeeds Kuwait Municipality in obligations arising before the transfer of subordination. The consequence. The Minister of Finance lacks standing in the dispute. The challenged judgment's departure from this and its ruling rejecting the plea raised by him. Vitiates it and requires its cassation.