Yousef Al-Mutaw'ah Yousef Al-Mutaw'ah

KUWAIT: Chairman of the Supreme Judiciary Council and the head of the cassation court Yousef Al-Mutaw'ah said that statements published in some local dailies quoting Egyptian judges working in Kuwait could not be taken seriously because they came from anonymous sources without mentioning specific names. He also noted that heads of various courts had not received any pay hike requests from Egyptian judges. "Such matters cannot be resolved by statements and through the press," he said, underlining that Kuwaiti-Egyptian judicial and brotherly relations were deep-rooted.

Mutaw'ah added that within a judicial agreement that had been in effect since the 1980s, Egypt had loaned Kuwait a large number of judges to work in all three courts. He also stressed that Egyptian and expatriate judges in general were welcome as brothers in Kuwait and that they have the same status and immunity as their Kuwaiti colleagues. "But financial matters are governed by laws and contracts," he remarked. - Al-Rai