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Arab Times
24-05-2025
- Arab Times
Good conduct pledge frees officer
KUWAIT CITY, May 24:The Court of Cassation overturned the seven-year prison sentence imposed on a traffic officer accused of unlawfully transferring vehicle ownership without the presence of the original owners. Instead of upholding the sentence, the court decided to refrain from pronouncing punishment and then required the officer to maintain good conduct. In the same case, the court also ruled to abstain from punishing several employees involved in the case. All were ordered to pay a bail of KD500 and adhere to good conduct conditions for one year. Earlier, the Public Prosecution referred the accused to court on charges of forgery, alleging they facilitated the transfer of vehicle ownership to third parties without the presence or authorization of the actual owners.
Local France
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Local France
Prosecutor seeks dismissal in French government Covid response probe
The Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) launched the probe in July 2020 over complaints that the government mismanaged its reaction to the virus's spread, including a lack of protective gear and unclear guidance over mask wearing. The CJR is the only court authorised to prosecute and try former and current government members for alleged crimes and offences committed in the exercising of their official duties. Philippe, as well as former health minister Agnes Buzyn, and her successor, Olivier Veran, were named as assisted witnesses – a status in the French legal system that falls between that of a witness and a formal suspect. While the CJR's investigation committee has the final say, the prosecutor's request for dismissal makes a trial less likely for the politicians involved. Philippe, a popular premier from 2017-2020, is mayor of the northern city of Le Havre and leads a right-centre party allied with, but not part of, Macron's centrist faction. Advertisement He is the only leading contender to firmly declare his intention to stand in the 2027 presidential election, where polls show him as the strongest candidate from the centre to take on the far-right. 'The investigation found that the government had taken numerous measures to combat the Covid-19 pandemic,' said CJR public prosecutor, Remy Heitz, adding the investigation could not establish that Philippe or Veran committed wilful failure to respond to a disaster. For her part, Agnes Buzyn had been sharply criticised for leaving her post at the start of the health crisis to run for mayor of Paris. But she left on February 16, 2020 – a few days before an official disaster was declared in France. 'No disaster as defined by the criminal code had yet been identified on the national territory, as the first death of a Covid-19 patient in France occurred on February 25, 2020,' said the prosecutor general's office. Buzyn had also been under investigation for endangering the lives of others, but France's Court of Cassation dropped that charge in January 2023.
Daily Tribune
21-05-2025
- Daily Tribune
Court of Cassation clears man who stabbed to death a charging dog
A Bahraini man who stabbed a charging dog to death has been cleared by the kingdom's highest court, which ruled that his belief in the threat was enough to justify self-defence, even if no attack took place. The Court of Cassation made clear that there does not need to be an actual attack or continued aggression. What matters is whether the person believed they or their property were in danger, and whether that belief made sense in the moment. The man had been walking through the capital with his own dog when another came charging towards him, barking. Fearing an attack, he drew a knife and struck once, catching the animal in the upper back. It died from the wound. Accusation He was later accused by the Public Prosecution of intentionally killing a domestic animal. Four individuals also lodged civil claims, seeking BD20,000 in compensation for the harm they claimed the act had caused. The Lower Criminal Court dismissed both the criminal charge and the civil case, accepting arguments made by his lawyer, Islam Ghoneim, that the man had acted to defend himself and his dog. Appeal The prosecution appealed the decision. The High Criminal Court, sitting as an appeals bench, found the man guilty in his absence and fined him BD100. That ruling was challenged. His new lawyer, Abdulrahman Ghoneim, took the case to the Court of Cassation, which found in his favour. The court said the appeal judges had been wrong to weigh the man's actions as though he had been calm and detached. What mattered, it said, was what the man saw and feared at the time, and how he reacted in that moment. Fear Self-defence, the court ruled, does not depend on whether an actual attack occurred. It is enough that the person reasonably feared something bad was about to happen. In this case, the dog appeared to be attacking, and the man acted on that belief. The danger did not need to be real. It only needed to seem real to him, and that was enough.
Arab Times
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Arab Times
Court Jails Kuwaiti Student For 3 Years Over Social Media Posts Targeting The Amir
KUWAIT CITY, May 19: The Court of Cassation has upheld the verdicts issued by both the Court of Appeal and the Criminal Court, sentencing a Kuwaiti university student to three years in prison with hard labor. The student was convicted of insulting the Amir and inciting the overthrow of the regime through articles posted on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) using a fake account. During the trial, the defendant denied all charges, claiming that her account had been exploited by an expatriate residing outside Kuwait. She stated that this individual had threatened her and warned her not to delete the tweets and articles that were published under her name.
Gulf Insider
19-05-2025
- Business
- Gulf Insider
Kuwait: Man Jailed For $855,000 Royal Court Scam; Promised Fake Gift And Marriage
Kuwait's top appeals court has handed down a four-year jail term to a defendant convicted of posing as an employee at the royal court and defrauding a woman of money, according to a media report. The Court of Cassation also ordered the convict pay a fine of KD263,000 (around $855,520), equivalent to the money he had seized from the Kuwaiti woman after he had duped her into believing he would provide her with a house and chalet as a gift from the royal court. The defendant later spent the money on wild parties outside Kuwait, while also promising the victim of marriage, added the Media court, a Kuwaiti news portal reporting about legal affairs. The court's ruling is final. In recent years, Kuwait has stepped up anti-corruption efforts and issued varying jail sentences to defendants in high-profile cases. Last week, three former advisors at Kuwait's royal court and a business agent were sentenced to three years in prison each on charges of squandering $180 million in a separate case. The Misdeamour Court also ordered each defendant pay a fine of KD10,000. They were convicted of causing significant damage to the royal court funds in an aircraft deal. The court also ordered their dismissal from their positions after they were proven to have committed serious violations, including negligence, dereliction of duties, and abuse of power inside and outside the country while overseeing the implementation of a contract to equip, furnish, and receive a royal plane. The charges included withholding essential information from the national carrier Kuwait Airways in the contract that was concluded with a US company, which resulted in damage to public money.
