Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3829

Judgments and orders issued in a foreign country. Their enforcement in Kuwait. Its condition: it must be on the same conditions prescribed in that country’s law for enforcement of judgments issued in Kuwait, that is, subject to reciprocity; the judgment must be issued by a competent court under the law of the country in which it was issued; the litigants must have been summoned to appear and properly represented; the judgment must have acquired the force of res judicata under the law of the court that issued it; and it must not conflict with a judgment previously issued by the courts of Kuwait or contravene public order and morals therein. Articles 29 of Decree-Law 76/1977 ratifying the Agreement on Legal and Judicial Cooperation between the State of Kuwait and the Arab Republic of Egypt, and 199 of the Civil Procedure Law.