Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 778

Examining and weighing evidence and documents, drawing from them what accords with the facts of the case, and deducing presumptions. Within the authority of the court of merits, provided it is cogent. The court of merits may deduce the presumption on which it relies from a litigant’s statements and documents in another case. It may rely on judgments rendered in another action to which the litigant was not a party as a presumption which it has authority to assess, and may adopt one conclusion rather than another. - Assessing the sham nature of documents is within the authority of the court of merits. - A judgment’s reliance on a set of mutually supporting presumptions. Each presumption may not be discussed separately to establish its insufficiency.