Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 4317

Submission of the statement of claim or application to the court is the event giving rise to the right to collect judicial fees for the Treasury in respect thereof. - The plaintiff is liable for the action fees once the action or application is before the court in the manner prescribed by law. - A litigant's bringing an incidental action before the court while it is hearing another action without paying the prescribed fees, the court's proceeding to hear it, and the registry's delaying collection of the fee until judgment is rendered. Its implication. The registry is bound by the authority of that judgment in collecting the fees due from the litigant whom the court ordered to pay them. A judgment's contravention thereof. Renders it defective for violation and misapplication of the law and requires its cassation.