Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 5

The State of Kuwait’s accession, with a reservation, to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards drawn up in New York. Its implication: its provisions become part of the State’s laws. The judge’s obligation to apply its rules. - The rules of procedural law followed in the territory where enforcement is sought. Confined to the litigation procedures necessary to obtain an order enforcing the award. All else is governed by the Convention. The challenged judgment’s contravention of this. An error in the application of the law requiring its cassation. Example.