KCC 1183/2004
Type
Case
Court
Kuwait Court of Cassation
Jurisdiction
Kuwait
Taxonomy
Civil Evidence, Jurisdiction & Choice of Law, General Employment & Labour Law
Copyright
LexisNexis
Decision date
17 Dec 2005
Catchwords
Employee – Fund – Settlement – Court Authority - Expert
This case involved a request for an expert to be appointed to calculate a claimant's dues in a fund. The court had the right to reject the case as there was evidence the claimant had left the company and signed a settlement with them.
Background
A claimant filed a case against two defendants and requested the court to appoint an expert in order to calculate his dues in a fund of a workers' syndicate of an oil company and order them to pay these dues accordingly.
The court rejected the case.
The claimant appealed the ruling before the court of appeal. The court upheld the appealed ruling.
Decision
The claimant appealed the ruling before the court of cassation and stated in his grounds of appeal that the ruling had erred in the application of law because the court had rejected his request for appointing an expert in order to calculate these dues.