Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1762

Grounds relating to public policy. Invoking them for the first time in oral argument before the Court of Cassation. Its condition. That they concern what has been appealed. Example: the absence from the cassation petition of a challenge concerning the permissibility of the appeal. Its effect. Its acquisition of the force of res judicata, which prevails over considerations of public policy, so that it may not be raised in oral argument before the Court of Cassation. - 281 - Civil Procedure