Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3162

The board of directors of a shareholding company. Its right to issue an invitation to a general assembly meeting on its own initiative or at the request of a specified number of shareholders, and the requirement that the invitation include a clear summary of the agenda. - Issuing the invitation. Its manner: either by registered letters sent to shareholders at least one week before the scheduled date, or by an announcement in at least two daily newspapers, with the second announcement published in the Official Gazette. Article 154 of the Commercial Companies Law. - The contested judgment requiring, for the validity of the procedures for convening the general assembly of a shareholding company, that the registered letters reach the shareholders and come to their knowledge at least one week before the scheduled date, relying on the provisions governing service of judicial documents, and ruling that the convening of the assembly and its resolutions were void. An interpretation of what is expressly stated in Article 154 of the Commercial Companies Law contrary to the rule of law, which vitiates it and requires its cassation. 4- Service on army, police and National Guard personnel:-