Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3373

The Sharia requirements that an arbitrator must satisfy. Their nature. - The arbitrator's failure to satisfy the Sharia requirements because he suffers from psychological and mental disorders and graduated from one of the special institutes of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour, which supports him and assists him financially. The appellant's reliance on this defence in his grounds of appeal and his request for permission to obtain two certificates from the Psychiatric Hospital and Social Affairs to establish the validity of his defence. A material defence. The judgment's disregard of investigating it and its disregard of responding to it vitiate the judgment and require its cassation.