Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 904

Grounds concerning public policy. The litigants, the Public Prosecution and the court may raise them of their own motion in a cassation appeal, even if they were not previously invoked before the court of merits or in the notice of appeal. The condition therefor. - Subject-matter jurisdiction. Considered to subsist in the litigation and to be always before the court, even if no plea concerning it is raised before it. The right to raise and invoke it does not lapse, even where the litigants previously waived it, and the court must rule upon it of its own motion. The reason therefor. Its connection with the foundations of judicial organisation. - The Administrative Circuit at the Court of First Instance. Its jurisdiction to hear the matters specified in the law establishing it. - The Administrative Circuit at the Court of First Instance. The legislature assigned it a special system for preparing actions before they are brought before it, prescribed a particular threshold for appealing its judgments, required service of the statement of claim and the notice of appeal within the three days following the filing of the document, and imposed a fixed fee on some of these actions. - 534 - Civil Procedure