Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2473

The time limit for appeal in all judgments on the merits is thirty days. The legislature shortened this time limit in urgent matters to fifteen days. - Urgent matters. What is meant thereby. - The attachment debtor’s request to lift an attachment of the debtor’s property held by a third party, by an action before the competent court of merits, to rid himself of the effects of the attachment and its effects and enable him to receive the attached property from the garnishee because of a defect invalidating the attachment or rendering it as though it had never existed. Its difference from a request to disregard the attachment, which is brought by a provisional action before the urgent-matters judiciary. The implication thereof. The judgment issued by the court of first instance in the female attachment debtor’s action seeking the lifting and cancellation of the attachment, as a substantive request, is not subject to the fifteen-day time limit prescribed for appealing judgments issued in - 469 - Procedure - urgent matters. The judgment’s departure from this and its ruling that the female appellant’s right of appeal had lapsed because it was filed after the time limit, on the basis that it was issued in an urgent matter. A violation of the law and an error in its application requiring its cassation. - An action concerning the award of an auction:-