Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 451

The judgment's adjudication is not its operative part alone, but the decisive ruling in the action, whatever its subject, whether in the reasons or in the operative part. Inclusion in the reasons of the determination of all or some of the issues in dispute upon which the operative part is based. Its implication. Those reasons are the reference for ascertaining what the judgment actually determined. Res judicata effect. It encompasses what the judgment expressly or implicitly decided in its operative part or its reasons.