Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 808

Determination of subject-matter jurisdiction. Its criterion: the relief sought by the claimant. - Jurisdiction of the Labour Circuit of the Court of First Instance. Its nature. A claim for invalidation of the extraordinary general assembly meeting of the Union of Employees of the Ministry of Electricity and Water and invalidation of the resolutions issued by it and their treatment as though they had never existed pursuant to the provisions of the Union’s Articles of Association. Not a labour dispute. Consequence thereof: the Labour Circuit lacks jurisdiction to hear it. The judgment’s adherence to this view. An implicit ruling that the court has jurisdiction to hear the action. The challenge thereto. Incorrect.