Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 33

The Brussels Convention; Kuwait's reservation concerning the maximum compensation in the event of loss of or damage to goods, with the intention of increasing it to 250 Kuwaiti dinars instead of one hundred pounds sterling. Deposit and promulgation of the treaty instrument. Its effect. Its becoming legislation in force in the State of Kuwait. Its implication. Assessment of compensation after its increase. Its application to relations involving a foreign element is linked to the position states take regarding the reservation, by accepting it expressly or implicitly or objecting to it in accordance with the alleged rules of public international law adopted in the Vienna Convention, to which - 14 - Commercial Kuwait acceded by Law No. 27 of 1975. A state's failure to object to the said reservation. Its effect. Being subject to the maximum fixed by the State of Kuwait. It is permissible to agree to increase the maximum but not to reduce it. Obliging the carrier to pay the actual value of the goods lost. Its condition.