Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 795

Payment by the drawee bank of the value of a cheque bearing a forged signature attributed to its customer. Does not discharge its liability toward the customer, however skillfully the signature was forged. The bank bears the consequences of this payment. The reason thereof. The basis of this liability: the risks of the profession practiced by the bank. Its condition: that no fault or negligence occur on the part of the customer named in the instrument. The standard for this fault is the care of an ordinary person in safeguarding the cheque book delivered to him.