Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2413

The employer and the subcontractor. No contractual relationship links them. The effect thereof. The second may claim from the first what the first owes the main contractor by an indirect action. He also has a direct action and a preferential right against him to spare him competition from the main contractor's creditors. Articles 682, 683, Civil Code. The condition thereof. The employer's debt to the main contractor must arise from the contract for works, and upon the action being brought he is precluded from paying the main contractor.