Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3353

Issuance of a judgment, whether by deliberating upon it or signing its draft. Permissible only for the judges who heard the pleadings. The occurrence of an impediment preventing any of them from attending the hearing at which it is pronounced, and replacement by another. This must be recorded in the original copy of the judgment, which is supplemented by what is stated in the hearing minutes in this regard. Contravention of this. Its effect: nullity of the judgment. An example of a judgment in which the hearing clerk made a clerical error in recording the name of the presiding judge in the minutes of the final pleading hearing concerning the composition of the panel, in a manner that does not result in nullity of the judgment.