Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3240

Bringing an appeal by filing a statement with the registry. Its service. A necessary procedure for fulfilling the adversarial principle between litigants. It must be completed within thirty days. Delay therein attributable to the appellant. Its sanction. The appeal may be deemed never to have existed at the respondent's request. - The thirty-day period prescribed for service of the appeal. A time limit for appearance. Its effect: the respondent's appearance after the deadline does not extinguish his right to plead that the appeal be deemed never to have existed. The curative effect of this appearance is confined to the nullity of service of statements of claim and summonses arising from a defect in service. Example.