Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1137

A plea that the action is inadmissible for lack of standing or capacity or for any other reason. It may be raised at any stage of the action. What is meant thereby. A plea of inadmissibility aimed at challenging the absence of the conditions enumerated in Article 48 of the Law of Procedure for hearing an action, including lack of standing. - A plea of inadmissibility for lack of standing. Its prerequisite. Cases in which a litigant denies his opponent’s standing or denies his own standing to have the action brought against him. An example that does not constitute such a case. - A plea. What matters is its true purport, not the wording assigned to it by the litigants. - Maritime sales and maritime carriage. What counts therein is the vessel’s name, not its owners’ names. Joining the appellant as agent and representative of the ship’s owners. His plea that the action is inadmissible and its originating pleading void for failure to state the names of the ship’s owners. His failure to dispute the capacity in which he was joined and his failure to prove that damage resulted from not adding the names of the ship’s owners. Its effect. Rejection of the plea.