School teacher ordered to pay damages for slapping student

KUWAIT CITY, Feb 14: The Civil Chamber of the Court of Appeals has obliged a primary school teacher to pay KD5,001 as temporary compensation to a student’s guardian, for the moral and material damages he suffered when the teacher slapped, insulted and threatened the student, reports Al-Anba daily.

Attorney Mustafa Mulla Youssef, lawyer of the guardian, told the daily that his client obtained a final Criminal Court ruling on abstaining from punishing the defendant. He then argued that the criminal ruling proved that the defendant assaulted the student, causing emotional and physical damages to the child. He pointed out the elements of error, as well as responsibility for the unlawful act against his client. He stressed that this means the defendant is liable for the incident, so his client is entitled to the compensation for material and moral damages.

Prosecution statistics: The Public Prosecution has confirmed receiving 46,566 cases in 2023 and that 94.7 percent of which were completed, including 100 murder and attempted murder case, 154 suicide and suicide attempt cases, 1,593 theft cases, 11 bribery and abuse of power cases, 923 cases of failure to submit the statement of assets and liabilities, 386 cases of officials refraining from implementing judicial rulings, and 618 cases of forging official documents, reports Al-Anba daily.

The prosecution also dealt with 212 money laundering cases last year, compared to 92 in 2017; 211 public funds embezzlement cases; and 2,666 drug-related cases, compared to 2,687 in 2022 and 1,506 in 2017.

It also handled 3,747 journalism, media, and information technology cases; 4,987 juvenile crime cases; 2,532 banknotes forgery cases; 2,868 dud check cases; 2,498 domestic violence cases; 461 medical professions and patients’ rights cases; four human trafficking cases and five electionrelated cases, in addition to 212 complaints from lawyers.