Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 4941

The worker’s submission of an application concerning his right to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour as the sole procedure by which judicial claims in labour actions commence. An exception to the general rules for instituting ordinary actions. Its implication. Confining this procedure to the limits prescribed by the legislature. - Subject-matter jurisdiction is attributed in principle to the Court of First Instance, not to its circuits. Assignment of particular actions to the court’s various circuits by a decision of its General Assembly. Merely an administrative distribution of work and not a matter of subject-matter jurisdiction. - The jurisdiction of one of the court’s circuits to hear particular matters under a special statutory provision. It does not preclude its jurisdiction to hear other matters falling within the court’s subject-matter jurisdiction. An example concerning the Labour Circuit. - 954 - Labour