Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2899

The criterion for valid service of a challenge at an elected address. The party must have designated it as his elected address in the document serving the judgment. - Completion of service. What matters is the actual delivery of the service copy to the recipient of service. Neither the date of submission of the service document to the authority competent to effect service nor its delivery to the process server is material. The person addressed refusing to receive the service copy. Its effect. The obligation to deliver it on the same day to the officer in charge of the police station or his substitute and to send a registered letter by post to the recipient of service at his domicile, workplace, or elected address within 24 hours of delivery of the copy to the police station. - The process server confining himself to recording the refusal of the person addressed to receive the service copy. Its effect. Service is not completed. - The plaintiff or appellant, even after delivering the statement of claim or appeal petition and its copies to the process server, has a duty to continue following up the procedures of his action and to take the legally appropriate step. The effect of his neglect in this regard or adoption of a passive position. Failure to complete service within its time limit is attributable to his act.