Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 360

Ambiguity or uncertainty in the text. The judge may ascertain the correct rule by examining the rationale and purpose of the legislation. - The issuance of a Civil Service Council decision granting researchers, specialists, professionals and technicians in the research departments of the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research a nature-of-work allowance in accordance with the schedule attached to the decision, distinguishing Kuwaiti scientific researchers by an additional increase in the rates of that allowance, specifying those job titles exhaustively, and not including the grade of Assistant Director-General of the Institute, which was subsequently created. Its effect. His lack of entitlement to the additional increase in the nature-of-work allowance established for scientific researchers alone. A judgment departing from this contravenes the Civil Service Council decisions regulating the grant of the allowance. It requires partial cassation of the judgment.