Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 4717

Gross misconduct on the worker’s part that relieves the employer of liability to compensate the worker for a work injury. Its meaning. - The first-instance judgment’s disregard of the respondent’s contention that it was not liable to compensate the appellant for his injury because he did not use the goggles it provided to him. Does not vitiate it. The reason for this. The challenged judgment’s conclusion that the appeal was formally admissible, although the appealed judgment was issued within the Court of First Instance’s final monetary jurisdiction, on the basis that the first-instance judgment was void for failing to examine the respondent’s defence. An error in the application of the law requiring its cassation.