Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 970

Referral of the debtor to the Institution for the Settlement of Share Transactions does not prevent his creditor, whose debt is unrelated to shares transacted on deferred terms, from resorting to the ordinary courts to claim his debt. The creditor's prior submission of his debt documents to the institution does not preclude this. The basis thereof. - The Bankruptcy Court specified in Law No. 75 of 1983 AD lacks jurisdiction over disputed debts except upon the debtor's referral to it and the issuance therein of a judgment declaring his bankruptcy.