Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1933

The plea of inadmissibility of new claims on appeal. Its connection with public policy. The court must rule of its own motion that such a claim is inadmissible. A claim is considered new even if its subject matter has not changed from that of the claim made before the court of first instance, whenever it exceeds it in amount. Its condition. That it does not fall within the exception prescribed in Article 144/3 of the Civil Procedure Law. - Damages whose increase may be sought before the Court of Appeal. They are those in respect of which circumstances have arisen justifying an increase over the amount specified in the final claims before the court of first instance, through aggravation of the harm justifying the claim. Merely increasing the amount of damages without justification. A new claim. It may not be raised before the Court of Appeal. Contravention thereof. An error requiring cassation of the judgment.