Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 813

Requirement of standing in the defendant or respondent in actions to annul administrative decisions. Its connection with public policy. Effect thereof. The court may examine and determine it of its own motion when applying the law to the administrative dispute as to both form and substance, at any stage of the action. - The appellate court may rule the action inadmissible whenever it establishes grounds for inadmissibility, even if the judgment under appeal overlooked them. Reason for this. A judgment against an administrative body imposing something that cannot readily be implemented or that its budget cannot bear, merely because it was joined as a party, contravenes public policy even if it has not pleaded lack of standing. - Standing in the defendant is a condition of the action. - Joinder in an annulment action. Against whom it is directed. Example of a ruling of inadmissibility for lack of standing in the defendant.