Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2197

Issuing a judgment, whether by deliberating on it or signing its draft. Permissible only for the judges who heard the pleadings. An impediment affecting any of them, preventing attendance at the hearing for its pronouncement, and the replacement of that judge by - 362 - Civil Procedure another. This must be recorded in the original copy of the judgment, which is supplemented by what appears in the hearing minutes concerning it. Failure to do so. Its consequence: nullity of the judgment. Example of a judgment where the hearing clerk made a clerical error in recording the name of the presiding judge in the minutes of the final pleading hearing concerning the composition of the bench, without this resulting in nullity of the judgment.