Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 50

Applications relating to lineage and correction of names—except matters within the competence of the Births and Deaths Committee—must, before being submitted to the judiciary, be submitted to the committee prescribed in Article 1 of Law No. 1 of 1988 regulating procedures for lineage and name-correction actions, which investigates them, determines the extent of the correctness of the name or lineage, and submits a report thereon. This application is the procedure by which - 13 - Civil Procedure judicial claims in these actions commence, and it is a matter of public policy. - The challenged judgment's ruling that the action was inadmissible on the basis that the appellant had not followed the procedures prescribed by law for bringing a lineage and name-correction action, having submitted it directly to the court without first submitting an application to the competent committee. A correct ruling. The appellant's contention that the judgment erred in characterizing the action as a dispute over her lineage rather than merely correction of a clerical error in her name. Ineffectual.