Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1537

A judge's disqualification from hearing the action. Its cases. Article 102, Civil Procedure. - The judge's prior expression of an opinion in the same dispute before him or in previous litigation between the same parties. Establishes the judge's disqualification. Its condition: adjudicating the case presented must require expressing an opinion on the same arguments and grounds raised in the first litigation. - The existence of res judicata does not disqualify the judge from hearing the subsequent action so long as he or other judges remain bound by it. Example.