Judicial principle — Kuwait Court of Cassation

Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1349

State of Kuwait · Commercial and Labour — Volume 9 · Ministry of Justice — Court of Cassation — Technical Office

English translation of the principle

Termination of a company does not entail the extinction of its legal personality, which it continues to retain throughout the liquidation period. - The liquidator is the person with standing throughout the company’s liquidation period to represent it before the courts. - Impleading a commercial company. It is sufficient in this regard to state its name without the name of its legal representative or liquidator. - Service on a commercial company containing its particulars, its name, and its administrative headquarters to which service was directed, without its liquidator’s name. Service is thereby valid.
Arabic original
انقضاء الشركة لا يترتب عليه زوال شخصيتها المعنوية وتظل محتفظة بها طوال فترة التصفية. - المصفى هو صاحب الصفة طوال مدة تصفية الشركة في تمثيلها أمام القضاء. - اختصام الشركة التجارية. يكفي بشأنه ذكر اسمها دون اسم ممثلها القانوني أو المصفي. - تضمن إعلان الشركة التجارية بيانها واسمها ومركز إدارتها الذي وجه إليه الإعلان دون اسم مصفيها. يصح بهد الإعلان.
Original Arabic judgment citations

(الطعن ٢٨٨/١٩٨٩ تجاري جلسة ١٩/٣/١٩٩٠ مج القسم الثاني - المجلد الأول ص ٤٥٠)

Source: Court of Cassation legal principles collection — Commercial and Labour — Volume 9 — Ministry of Justice — Court of Cassation — Technical Office. Printed page 237. PDF pages: 237.

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