Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2519

The time limit for appeal in all judgments on the merits. Thirty days. The legislature shortened this time limit in urgent matters to fifteen days. - Urgent matters. Their meaning. - A request by the person subject to attachment to lift a garnishment, by an action before the competent court of merits, to rid himself of the effects of the attachment and its effects and enable him to receive the attached property from the garnishee because of a defect rendering the attachment void or deemed never to have existed. It differs from a request to disregard the attachment, brought by an action for interim relief before the urgent matters court. Implication thereof. The judgment rendered by the court of first instance in the action brought by the woman subject to attachment seeking its lifting and cancellation, as a substantive claim, is not subject to the fifteen-day time limit prescribed for appealing judgments rendered in urgent matters. The judgment's contravention of this and its ruling that the female appellant's right of appeal had lapsed because it was brought after the time limit, on the basis that it was rendered in an urgent matter. A violation of the law and an error in its application requiring its cassation.