Judicial principle — Kuwait Court of Cassation

Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 829

State of Kuwait · Pleadings — Part Three · Ministry of Justice — Court of Cassation — Technical Office

English translation of the principle

Omission to respond to a defence that does not affect the outcome reached by the challenged judgment. Does not constitute inadequate reasoning. The reason for this. An example of what does not constitute inadequate reasoning. - The judgment’s failure to quote the texts of documents whose evidentiary import it rejected, where it merely referred to them and they were set out in the litigants’ memoranda:-
Arabic original
إغفال الرد على دفاع غير مؤثر في النتيجة التي انتهى إليها الحكم المطعون فيه. لا يعد قصوراً. علة ذلك. مثال لما لا يعد قصوراً. - عدم ذكر الحكم نصوص مستندات أطرح دلالتها متى اكتفى بالإشارة إليها وكانت مبينة بمذكرات الخصوم:-
Original Arabic judgment citations

(الطعن ٥٦٦/٢٠٠٤ تجاري جلسة ٦/٥/٢٠٠٦ مجلة القضاء والقانون س٣٤ ج٢ ص١١٦)

Source: Court of Cassation legal principles collection — Pleadings — Part Three — Ministry of Justice — Court of Cassation — Technical Office. Printed page 138. PDF pages: 135.

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