Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1740

The principle of the relative effect of procedural steps in relation to challenging a judgment. Its import is that, where there are multiple judgment debtors and only one or some of them challenge the judgment, only those who brought the appeal within the time limit benefit from its effect, to the exclusion of the others, and it may be invoked only against those against whom it was brought within the time limit, to the exclusion of the others. - 276 - Civil Procedure - Actions involving an indivisible subject matter or a joint and several obligation, or in which the law requires specified persons to be joined. Multiple judgment debtors therein and the bringing of an appeal by only one or some of them within the time limit. The remaining persons may appeal within the time limit. Their failure to appeal. The court must order their joinder. Counting their joinder. Its effect. Inadmissibility of the appeal. The legislature's purpose in this and its relation to public policy. Example.