Background

A claimant filed a case against two defendants and requested the court to dismiss a decision of the Minister of Interior which limited his award stipulated by Kuwait Ministerial Decision No. 495/2008 to six months.

The court ruled that the claimant had the right to receive 27576 Dinars.

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

Decision

The defendants appealed the ruling before the court of cassation and stated in their grounds of appeal that the ruling had erred in the application of law and had insufficient evidence of causation because the court had rejected their argument that the case had been filed against irrelevant party (the second defendant).

The court stated this argument was valid because the case documents revealed that the claimant was working with the first defendant and so the case should have been only filed against this party.

The court repealed the ruling.