Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2208

The employer and subcontractor. No contractual relationship binds them. The latter may claim from the former the amount he owes to the main contractor by an indirect action. He also has a direct action and a preferential right against him to spare him competition with the main contractor’s creditors. Articles 682, 683, Civil Code. The condition for this. The employer’s debt to the main contractor must arise from the contract for works, and upon the action being brought he is barred from paying the main contractor.