Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1534

Appealing judgments rendered within the final monetary jurisdiction of courts of first instance. Permissible as an exception to the general rules in cases including nullity in the judgment. Among these is rendition of the judgment by a panel unfit to consider the action and prohibited from hearing it. What is decisive regarding the expression of an opinion necessitating a judge's disqualification. His performance of an act that gives him an opinion on the action or personal knowledge conflicting with the requirement that his mind be free of the subject matter of the action. The judge's consideration of an application for a payment order in the absence of the litigants and without oral argument. Does not preclude him from considering the grievance brought by the person against whom the order was issued pursuant to Article 164 of the Law of Procedure. The challenged judgment's departure from this view. Vitiates it and requires its cassation.