Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2370

The binding effect before the civil court of a judgment rendered in a criminal action. Its condition: that it have necessarily decided the facts constituting the common basis of the criminal and civil actions, their legal characterization, and their attribution to their perpetrator. The implication thereof: the civil court must refrain from re-examining them so that its ruling does not conflict with the previous criminal judgment. - The civil judge. His being bound by a criminal judgment of acquittal. Its condition. That it be based on negating attribution of the incident to the accused, whether the basis of that negation is that the accused did not commit the act attributed to him or that the existing evidence concerning attribution of the accusation to him is insufficient. An example concerning the binding effect of a criminal judgment of acquittal before the civil court. - Ancillary civil action (civil claim):-