Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2060

Subject-matter jurisdiction. In principle, it is attributed to the court, not its circuits. Assignment of particular actions to different circuits by a decision of the general assembly. An administrative distribution of work among those circuits. Its implication. Their jurisdiction to adjudicate the dispute even if the general assembly has assigned it to another circuit. The exception. Cases in which the law assigns subject-matter jurisdiction over particular matters to a circuit of the court. This does not prevent it from hearing other matters falling within the court's subject-matter jurisdiction. The condition thereof. That the law does not provide otherwise. - The Labour Circuit of the Court of First Instance. Its exclusive jurisdiction to determine disputes arising from the application of the provisions of laws issued concerning labour in the private sector and the oil business sector and claims for compensation arising therefrom. This does not preclude its jurisdiction to hear other matters as one of the court's circuits. - 377 - Procedure