Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1965

The principle of the relative effect of procedural acts in relation to challenging a judgment. Its implication is that, where there are multiple parties against whom judgment was rendered and only one or some of them challenge it, the effect of the challenge benefits only those who filed it within the time limit, not the others, and may be invoked only against those against whom it was filed within the time limit, not the others. - Actions involving an indivisible subject matter or a joint and several obligation, or in which the law requires the joinder of specified persons. Multiple parties against whom judgment was rendered therein, and a challenge filed within the time limit by only one or some of them. The remainder may challenge after the time limit. Their failure to challenge. The court must order their joinder. Failure to join them. Its effect. Inadmissibility of the challenge. The legislature's purpose in this and its relation to public policy. Example.