Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 217

Authorization by the originally retained lawyer of another lawyer without a writing requirement. A general agency between lawyers intended to ensure the continued progress of the proceedings without disruption, and not intended as the special agency required for discontinuance of proceedings. Its basis. Article 24 of Law 42 of 1964, as amended. - A lawyer's declaration of discontinuance of proceedings pursuant to a general agency, without a special agency authorizing discontinuance, whether from the litigant or his originally retained lawyer, and the judgment's conclusion recording discontinuance of the proceedings. Renders it defective. - 42 - Civil Procedure