Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 277

Reconciliation between the spouses proves impossible. Its consequence. The court may appoint two arbitrators from the spouses' families if possible. If they disagree, it shall join to them a deciding arbitrator from outside their families, and the three arbitrators shall submit their report, unanimously or by majority, to the court. - The meaning of majority for purposes of Articles 127 to 132 of Law 51 of 1984. Agreement of two arbitrators on one opinion. - The court may establish harm by ordinary methods in two cases: first: failure to achieve the required majority of arbitrators. Second: if the arbitration procedures are not completed for any reason. - The judgment granting judicial divorce on the ground that the wife's arbitrator and the deciding arbitrator agreed on separation and that there was no basis for the appellant's request to refer the action for evidentiary investigation. A correct ruling based on reasonable grounds. Criticism thereof is unfounded.