Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2156

An action to annul administrative decisions. It must be brought within sixty days from the date of publication of the challenged administrative decision in the Official Gazette or in bulletins issued by government departments, notification thereof to the person concerned, or establishment of that person's certain knowledge thereof. - A grievance against administrative decisions must be lodged before bringing an annulment action. Reason therefor: to enable administrative bodies to remedy errors in their decisions, examine the grounds of the grievance, and grant the person concerned his request when the validity of his grievance is established. - Submission of the mandatory grievance. A necessary condition for admissibility of the annulment action. Waiting for the prescribed periods for deciding the grievance was not intended as an end in itself. Reason therefor. - Bringing the action before pursuing the grievance procedure and remedying this by submitting the grievance within the sixty days following issuance of the decision, with the period for deciding it expiring during the proceedings without the administrative body granting his request or notifying him of rejection of his grievance. There is no need to repeat litigation by bringing a new action so long as the purpose intended by the legislature in requiring a grievance to administrative bodies has been achieved. The challenged judgment's contravention of this view. This renders it defective and requires its cassation.