Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 296

The lawyer's relationship with his client. The agency provisions stipulated in the Civil Code apply thereto. - Law 42 of 1964 concerning the regulation of the legal profession does not regulate the modes of termination of a lawyer's agency contract. Its implication. It terminates for the same reasons by which the agency contract stipulated in the Civil Code terminates. - Agency is a revocable contract. The implication thereof. The principal may dismiss his agent at any time and may restrict his agency even before completion of the entrusted work or expiry of its specified term. This concerns public policy, and no agreement to the contrary is permissible. The exception. Where the agency is granted in the interest of the agent or a third party, the agent may not be dismissed or his agency restricted without the consent of the person in whose interest the agency was granted. - Dismissal of the agent. Its effect: termination of the agency. The principal bears no liability therefor unless his dismissal of the agent was without acceptable justification or at an inappropriate time, and he must compensate him for the damage he sustained as a result of his dismissal. The judgment's contravention thereof. Vitiates it and requires its cassation. - 58 - Civil Procedure