Background

A claimant filed a case against defendants and requested the court to dismiss the decision of the Minister of Health which had rejected the change of her son's name.

The court ruled that the claimant had the right to change the name of her son.

The defendants appealed the ruling before the court of appeal. The court upheld the appealed ruling.

Decision

The first defendant 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 and stated he had maintained before the court that the claimant had not made a request to the relevant committee and did not follow the procedures stipulated by Article 1 of Kuwait Law No. 1/1988.

The court stated this argument was invalid because the case documents made a request to the relevant committee but this committee had not informed her of the legal procedure that she should follow in order to change the name of her son.

The court dismissed the appeal.