Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3274

Liability for personal injury. Its financial burden falls on the direct actor in accordance with the provisions of Islamic Sharia and the contents of the blood-money schedule. - The direct actor in Islamic jurisprudence. His definition: a person whose act, performed personally, itself brought about the harm and caused it without an intermediary. The distinction between direct action and indirect causation. - The movement of a vehicle is the act of its driver because it results from his activity. He is considered the direct actor in respect of every harm resulting from that movement. A judgment’s departure from this renders it defective. An example of a judgment considering that the deceased’s fault was established by his crossing a road intersection against a red light, which led to the accident that claimed his life, and constituted gross misconduct on his part such as to negate the status of direct actor in respect of the respondent, the driver of the vehicle.