Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1375

The legislature's requirement that a non-lawyer agent appearing for a litigant at hearings have a marital relationship or kinship or affinity up to the fourth degree is confined to attendance at hearings. Any person other than these may draft statements of claim, sign them, and submit them to the registry unless the law requires a lawyer's signature. Example. A statement of claim signed by someone not included in Article 54 of the Civil Procedure Law. Its effect. No nullity.