Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 271

Administrative disputes relating to civil servants’ affairs. They fall within the jurisdiction of the Administrative Circuit of the Court of First Instance. It has jurisdiction therein to grant annulment and compensation. - Public employee. Definition. An example in which the administrative judiciary lacks jurisdiction because public-employee status is absent. - A company whose ownership has passed to the State remains a person governed by private law. The necessary consequence is that its workers lack public-employee status and the provisions of the Labour Law apply to them. An example concerning the Kuwait Transport Company.