Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1282

Inadmissibility of new claims on appeal. Its purpose. Preventing the loss of one of the two levels of litigation. Its relation to public order. - The appellant’s request in the statement instituting the first-instance action to appoint an expert as a preliminary step toward seeking a judgment declaring him free of liability for the debt. Does not constitute a request by him for a judgment declaring him free of liability for that debt. Seeking this in the statement of appeal for the first time. Constitutes a new claim. The Court of Appeal may not address it. The judgment’s departure from this. A violation of the law requiring its cassation.