Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 52

The Civil and Commercial Procedure Law. Its application to actions not yet decided or procedures not yet completed before its entry into force. Article (1). Exception: provisions amending time limits where the time limit began before their effective date and the amended time limit was prescribed by an earlier procedural law. Its implication: time limits not previously prescribed are not subject to the exception. - The amendment to Article 70 of the Procedure Law introducing a thirty-day period following expiry of the stay, during which the plaintiff must reactivate his action. Introduction of a period absent from the existing provision; accordingly, the exception in Article 1 of the Procedure Law does not apply thereto. - 347 - Procedure