Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3397

Acceptance of the appeal as to form has no binding effect extending to the merits of the dispute submitted to the Court of Appeal. The consequence thereof. Only what has been appealed of the first-instance ruling is submitted to the Court of Appeal. What was not previously submitted to it or what it has not adjudicated. May not be the subject of a claim before the Court of Appeal. The basis thereof is the rule that new claims are inadmissible on appeal.