Background

A claimant filed a case against defendants requesting that the court validate his right to an allowance under Article 30 of Kuwait Law No. 40/1980 and order the defendants to pay him compensation.

The court validated the right of the employee to the allowance and ordered the defendants to pay compensation.

The defendants appealed and the appeal court abandoned the ruling and rejected the case.

The claimant appealed by cassation.

Decision

Before the cassation court the claimant argued that the ruling had violated his right in defence as the court ignored his request to issue formal copies of the case documents relating to his defence.

The court held that this argument was invalid as the court has the authority to consider all aspects of a case and is not obliged to meet all requests made by the disputed parties. The court stated that the case documents were suitable enough to establish its ruling.

The court therefore dismissed the appeal.