Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 4269

Assessment of a lawyer’s fees for non-judicial work where there is no written agreement concerning them, or one exists but is void. How this is done. Bringing an ordinary action in accordance with the rules of the Code of Civil Procedure. This concerns public policy: contravening this and ruling that the action is inadmissible because it was not brought by the route prescribed by law. A deficiency requiring cassation of the judgment. - A lawyer’s following the route of an ordinary action to claim his fees for the judicial work entrusted to him, departing from the route prescribed by law for this, namely submitting an application by petition to the court that heard the action. Its effect. Its inadmissibility.