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Law of Kuwait

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Kuwait operates under a civil law legal system, with courts running from Summary Courts of first instance, including specialized Traffic and Administrative divisions, up through a Court of Appeals, a Cassation Court, and a Constitutional Court that interprets the constitution and hears disputes over constitutionality. The Emir appoints all judges, and many judicial officers are foreign nationals, particularly from Egypt, leaving the judiciary without independence from the government.

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Family classification carried over from this entity's own recorded SubLabel (Civil Law Family), assigned under the section-legal-systems structure wave (ruling 761) using the CIA World Factbook / JuriGlobe comparative-law family classification (system.Atlas.DataBrief, law). This edge materializes that existing classification as a connective fact; it is not a new independent research finding.

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