Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 977

The binding effect of a criminal judgment in a civil action. Its limits. The conviction judgment being based on fault consisting of driving the vehicle at a speed exceeding that legally prescribed. The civil judgment may not reconsider the question of establishing this fault. Contravention of that. An error requiring cassation of the judgment. - The insurer's recourse against the insured to recover compensation it may have paid. Its condition. - The speeding clause that entitles the insurer to recourse against the insured when fulfilled. What is meant is speed exceeding the limits imposed by law, not speed that the condition of the road at the accident location cannot accommodate.