Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 149

Procedural laws. Their application to actions not adjudicated or procedures not completed before the date they come into force. Exception: provisions amending time limits. Its condition: commencement of the time limit before the date these provisions come into force. What is meant thereby: provisions amending a time limit prescribed in a previous procedural law. Time limits not previously prescribed. This exception does not apply to them. - The introduction in Article 70 of the Procedural Law, after its amendment by Law 36 of 2002, of a period of thirty days for the plaintiff to resume his action following a stay. The previous provision did not specify a period for resumption. Its effect: inapplicability of the exception in paragraph (b) of Article One of the Procedural Law. Its implication: the aforementioned time limit begins to run from the date the newly introduced provision comes into force. Basis thereof. Example. - Newly introduced procedural time limits run only from the date the provision introducing them comes into force. - 365 - Procedure