Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 4200

The legislature's restriction of the right to represent litigants before the courts to lawyers alone and its establishment of this as a general rule in litigation agency. Exception: interested parties may appoint their spouses, relatives by marriage or blood relatives up to a specified degree to act on their behalf in judicial pleading procedures. This exception does not extend to all procedures. Its application to the signing of appeal pleadings is prohibited. The legislature reserved this exclusively to lawyers. Reason and effect thereof. Example.