Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 9

Judgments and orders issued in a foreign country. Their enforcement in Kuwait. Its conditions: that it be on the same conditions prescribed by the law of that country for enforcement of judgments issued in Kuwait, namely on condition of reciprocity; that the judgment be issued by a court competent under the law of the country in which it was issued; that the litigants have been summoned to appear and properly represented; that the judgment have the force of res judicata under the law of the court that issued it; and that it neither conflict with a judgment previously issued by the courts of Kuwait nor contravene public policy and morals therein. Articles 29 of Decree-Law 67/1977 ratifying the Agreement on Legal and Judicial Cooperation between the State of Kuwait and the Arab Republic of Egypt, and 199 of the Law of Procedure.