Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1445

The judge's ratification of a settlement agreement does not constitute adjudication of a dispute. The judge's function is confined to recording the agreement reached before him. Its effect. A judgment declaring inadmissible the intervention of a person seeking judgment in his own favour on a claim connected with the action. It does not render the applicant for intervention a litigant or party to the action. Rejection of the plea that the action may not be heard because it has already been adjudicated. Correct. - Intervention asserting an independent claim:-