Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 30

Summary: - A ruling that an appeal is formally inadmissible because it was lodged after the legally prescribed time limit. A procedural judgment. The law does not require a particular extent or form of reasoning for it. - The appeal period. Twenty days from the date of pronouncement of a judgment rendered in the defendant’s presence. Article 201, Criminal Procedure and Trials. Rule: It is established from the text of the challenged judgment that its reasons stated that the first-instance judgment was rendered—in the defendant’s presence—on 14/2/2011 and that the accused—the appellant—lodged an appeal against it on 5/6/2011, after the expiry of the time limit prescribed in Article 201 of the Criminal Procedure and Trials Law. These reasons suffice to support the operative ruling that the appellant’s appeal was formally inadmissible because it was lodged out of time, as it is a procedural judgment for which the law does not require a particular extent or form of reasoning. Given the provision in the aforementioned Article 201 that the appeal period is twenty days from the date of pronouncement of a judgment rendered in the defendant’s presence, the appellant’s allegation of inadequate reasoning is unfounded.