KCC 213/2004
Type
Case
Court
Kuwait Court of Cassation
Jurisdiction
Kuwait
Taxonomy
Financial & Business Offences, Defamation, General Employment & Labour Law, Compensation, General Criminal Law & Disposition of Offenders
Copyright
LexisNexis
Decision date
20 Mar 2006
Catchwords
Employee – Fraud – Evidence – Libel – Compensation – Criminal Ruling
This case involved a claim for compensation by an employee who had been accused of fraud but had been declared innocent in a criminal ruling. There was no denial of the accusation incident as the criminal court had merely be sceptical that there was insufficient evidence to convict the employee of fraud.
Background
A claimant filed a case against a defendant and requested the court to order the defendant to pay him an amount of money as compensation because he had been wrongly accused of fraud and the court had found him innocent.
The court referred the case to the Labour Department in the court.
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 case although the penal ruling which found him innocent had legal power in this respect.