The apex of the ordinary hierarchy. Kuwaiti civil law follows the Egyptian-French model in the Civil Code of 1980, with Sharia governing personal status through separate Sunni and Jafari sections of the Personal Status Court. Kuwait's Constitutional Court is unusually willing to intervene: it dissolved the National Assembly and annulled elections in 2012 and 2013.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- supreme
- Court type
- Apex court
- Jurisdiction
- Final review on points of law in civil, commercial, criminal and personal-status matters.
- Seat
- Kuwait City
- Established
- 1990
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