Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 771

The ordinary judiciary possesses general jurisdiction to hear civil and commercial disputes. The implication thereof. - The issue of lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. Its relation to public policy. The effect thereof. It is deemed always to be before the court of merits, and the right to raise it does not lapse even if the litigants waive it. It may be invoked for the first time before the Court of Cassation, and that Court may also raise it of its own motion. The condition therefor. 3- Prohibition against contravening jurisdictional rules relating to the principle of litigation at two levels:-