Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 4215

An agreement concluded by a lawyer fixing the lawyer's fees for the judicial or non-judicial work entrusted to the lawyer as a percentage of the amount claimed in the action, the amount awarded therein, or the judicial work agreed to be performed. Is void. The rationale therefor. The lawyer has an interest in the action or work entrusted to the lawyer, which the law prohibits. - Assessment of a lawyer's fees for non-judicial work in the absence of a written agreement or where it is void. Its manner. An ordinary action in accordance with the Civil Procedure Law. - 741 - Civil Procedure - Nullity of the agreement contract. Its effect. Its nonexistence from the time of its conclusion and elimination of every effect of its performance. The judgment's departure from this. A violation of the law and an error in its application requiring its cassation.