Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3138

The challenged judgment's sound conclusion that the female appellant failed to appear—as defendant—before the court of first instance and the appointed expert. The judgment's resulting determination that the appellant's alternative claim made in the appeal petition—set-off between what is owed to her and what she owes—is a new claim not made before the court of first instance and may not be made before the Court of Appeal. Correct. 12- The Court of Appeal's power to remedy purely clerical errors in the appealed judgment:-