Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1879

Granting or rejecting a request to reopen the action for pleadings. Within the unfettered discretion of the court of merits. - Closing pleadings in the action. Its effect. Courts are prohibited from hearing one of the litigants or his representative in his opponent’s absence, or accepting documents or memoranda before the other litigant has examined them. The rationale for that. - The presumption regarding procedures is that they were observed. Establishing evidence of their invalidity. The burden falls upon the person asserting it. - The hearing record. An official document having evidentiary authority against everyone as to what is recorded in it. Alleging that it contradicts the truth in what it contains or does not contain. The procedure for challenging it on grounds of forgery must be followed.