Background

An employee filed a case against a company requesting that the court order the company to pay his salaries.

The court rejected the case.

The employee appealed and the appeal court ruled that the employee had no right to appeal the ruling.

The employee appealed by cassation.

Decision

Before the cassation court the employee argued that the ruling had insufficient evidence of causation as the court had established its ruling on lack of quorum, however, the ruling rejected his request to order the company to pay his salaries and he therefore had the right to appeal.

The court held that this argument was invalid as Article 34 of the Kuwait Pleadings Law stipulates that the ruling issued by the plenary court should be considered an absolute one if the case does not exceed 5000 Dinars. The employee's request did not exceed 5000 Dinars.

The court therefore dismissed the appeal.