Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 73

Provisions concerning avenues of appeal. Their temporal scope. Article 2 of the promulgating provisions of the Code of Procedure. A judgment’s subjection to provisions establishing new avenues of appeal. The determining factor is the date on which the judgment was rendered, without regard to any other date or procedure which the law makes the starting point for the time limit for appealing certain judgments. The consequence thereof. The new appeals law applies to judgments whose dates of issuance fall under its operation, not to judgments rendered before its effective date. An example concerning a judgment rejecting a plea that the right to institute proceedings had lapsed, rendered before the provisions of Law 40/1972 concerning cases of appeal by cassation took effect.