Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1328

Subject-matter jurisdiction is attributed, as a rule, to the court, not to its circuits. Assignment of particular actions to the court's circuits by a decision of its general assembly. Does not constitute subject-matter jurisdiction, but merely an administrative distribution of work among those circuits; they bear the description of the Court of General Jurisdiction and have jurisdiction to adjudicate the dispute even if the assembly assigned it to another circuit. The exception. Cases in which the law, by a special provision, singles out a circuit of the court as having jurisdiction to hear particular matters. This does not preclude - 628 - Procedure its jurisdiction to hear other matters falling within the court's subject-matter jurisdiction. Example concerning the jurisdiction of the Rentals Circuit of the Court of General Jurisdiction and its not being deprived, as one of the court's circuits, of jurisdiction to hear matters other than rental disputes.