Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 4146

The legislature's requirement that a non-lawyer agent attending hearings on behalf of a litigant have a marital relationship or a relationship by blood or marriage up to the fourth degree. Confined to attendance at hearings. Any person other than these may prepare statements of claim, sign them and submit them to the court registry, unless the law requires a lawyer's signature. Example: signature of a statement of claim by a person not included in Article 54, Civil Procedure. Its effect. No nullity.