Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 132

Summary: - The ruling referring the civil action to the competent civil court, the crimes having been established against the appellant. The complaint that the civil action should have been dismissed because it had previously been adjudicated before the Commercial Court in the United Kingdom is misplaced. Rule: Since the papers establish that the court of first instance ruled to refer the civil action to the competent civil court, and the appellate court affirmed it in that respect after concluding that the crimes were established against the appellant, the appellant’s contention concerning the previous award to the civil claimant company of the sums due to it in the civil action it brought before the Commercial Court in the United Court, and the dismissal that should have been ordered of the civil action brought as ancillary to the criminal action, is misplaced.