Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2279

Termination of the dispute between the litigants by the issuance of the judgment and the case leaving the court's purview. Effect: it is impermissible to reconsider it or amend or correct the judgment by virtue of the court's judicial authority. Exception. Confined to purely clerical errors. The court may not use their correction as a means of retracting its judgment or amending its operative part in a manner contradicting it. Reason: infringement of res judicata. Example. - Purely clerical errors in a judgment are those occurring in expression, not in thinking. Example of what is not considered such. - 377 - Civil Procedure