Judicial principle — Kuwait Court of Cassation

Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1294

State of Kuwait · Pleadings — Part Three · Ministry of Justice — Court of Cassation — Technical Office

English translation of the principle

Understanding the facts of the case and assessing the evidence and documents. For the court of merits. Its prerequisite. That it base its ruling on reasonable grounds and that its inference lead to the conclusion it reached. An example concerning a judgment basing its ruling establishing a state of mental incapacity, prodigality and heedlessness on presumptions and judicial judgments, while confining itself to referring to those judgments without stating their import, how it relied upon them to establish the fact on which it based its ruling, and the effect of those judgments in forming its conviction. Deficiency and unsound inference. This vitiates it and requires its cassation. - 203 - Civil Procedure
Arabic original
فهم الواقع في الدعوى وتقدير الأدلة والمستندات. لمحكمة الموضوع. مناطه. أن تقيم قضاءها على أسباب سائغة وأن يكون استدلالها مؤدياً للنتيجة التي خلصت إليها. مثال بشأن إقامة الحكم قضاءه بثبوت حالة العته والسفه والغفلة على قرائن وأحكام قضائية مع اقتصاره إلى الإشارة إلى تلك الأحكام دون بيان مؤداها ووجه استدلاله بها على ثبوت الحقيقة التي أسس عليها قضاءه وأثر تلك الأحكام في تكوين عقيدته. قصور وفساد في الاستدلال. يعيبه ويوجب تمييزه. - ٢٠٣ - المرافعات
Original Arabic judgment citations

(الطعون ٢٠٤، ٢٠٥، ٢٠٦/٢٠٠٠ أحوال شخصية جلسة ١٦/٦/٢٠٠١ مج القسم الرابع المجلد الرابع ص٢٤١)

Source: Court of Cassation legal principles collection — Pleadings — Part Three — Ministry of Justice — Court of Cassation — Technical Office. Printed page 203. PDF pages: 200.

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