Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 219

The legislature’s treatment of a distribution agreement under which the trader alone undertakes to promote and distribute the products of an industrial or commercial establishment in a specified area as equivalent to contract agency. Its import: the provisions governing the latter apply to the relationship between its parties, who may agree that the distributor shall be the sole distributor in the area it specifies, so long as the law does not prohibit this agreement. The judgment’s departure therefrom. An error in the application of the law.