Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 203

The general rule is that procedural legal rules apply with immediate effect to actions brought while they are in force, even if those actions arose from earlier facts. - Intervention by the Public Prosecution in certain personal status cases. Mandatory. Exhaustively specified. Article 338 of Law 51 of 1984, including cases concerning persons lacking capacity or having diminished capacity. - Failure of the Public Prosecution to intervene where the law requires it. Its effect. Nullity of the judgment. The reason for this and its connection with public policy. - The first-instance judgment determining a petition for reconsideration filed after Law 51 of 1984 came into force, without intervention by the Public Prosecution, in a dispute concerning a person with diminished capacity. The challenged judgment ruling that the first-instance judgment was null. Correct. The fact that the dispute for which reconsideration was sought dated from before the said Law came into force. Has no effect.