A claimant filed a case against a defendant before the court. They requested the court to appoint an expert in order to calculate the losses they had incurred as a result of the eviction from the property they were renting from the defendant.

The court dismissed the case.

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

The claimant appealed the ruling before the court of cassation.They said in her grounds of appeal that the ruling had erred in the application of law. They said that the contract signed between the two parties did not give the defendant the right to evacuate them from the property and therefore they deserved compensation.

The court said that this argument is valid. The court said that Article 196 of Kuwait Decree-Law No. 67/1980 stipulated that the parties to a contract should commit to its obligations. The court said that the contract signed between the two parties had stipulate that the defendant did not have the right to evict the claimant from the property.