Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3823

The documents that an applicant for enforcement of a foreign arbitrator’s award must submit under the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards. The effect of submitting those documents: establishment of a rebuttable legal presumption of the validity of the arbitral award as regards the constitution of the tribunal that issued it, its conformity with the will of its parties and the supplementary and interpretative legal provisions, the validity of the procedures followed, and its binding force upon its parties. Rebutting this presumption. Falls upon the person against whom it is invoked. How this is done.