Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1316

An order striking out an action. It is not regarded as a judgment. The consequence thereof. It may not be challenged independently. The invalidity of the striking-out order may be invoked when proceedings in the struck-out action are renewed. The purpose of - 206 - Civil Procedure this. Avoiding the renewal time limit prescribed in Article 59/3 of the Civil Procedure Law and the sanction of deeming the action or appeal as never having existed for failure to renew within the time limit. The court's failure to respond to this defence: its effect. Nullity of the judgment. An example.