KUWAIT CITY, July 20: The Court of Appeals ordered Ministry of Interior to pay compensation worth KD 3,000 to a Kuwaiti woman who had accused some employees of the ministry of tracking her and providing her location to a citizen against whom she had filed a case.The plaintiff counsel Lawyer Athbi Al-Namran explained that he had filed a case against a Kuwaiti citizen who had given a dud cheque. The verdict of that case was a jail term of three years with hard labor issued against him.However, his client started bumping into the citizen at various locations. She lodged an official complaint with the Department of Control and Inspection against the personnel of Ministry of Interior, accusing the latter of tracking her and providing her location to the suspect.Earlier, the lower court had imposed a fine of KD 1,000 on Ministry of Interior. However, the plaintiff appealed the verdict, as the actions of the ministry personnel were in violation of the plaintiff’s constitutional right.Professor acquitted: The Court of Appeals upheld First Instance Court’s decision and acquitted Professor of Law at Kuwait University’s Faculty of Law Ebaid Al-Wasmi of circulating false information via his Twitter account.Security authorities took legal action against Al-Wasmi for spreading false information based on a statement he posted via Twitter last Ramadan saying he was suspicious about Ministry of Interior’s announcement concerning the arrest of some DAESH members in Kuwait. Al-Wasmi denied the accusation in court.Decision overruled: The Administrative Circuit of the Court of Appeals issued a verdict to cancel a decision issued to reject promotion of the plaintiff to the “professor” grade at the Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts. The court instead issued a ruling to appoint him in the abovementioned grade.The complainant filed the lawsuit after his colleague was promoted from “associate professor” to “professor” before him even though his colleague did not pass through the normal grades.The Court of First Instance had cancelled the decision and obliged the respondent to be relieved from that grade as well as pay compensation worth KD 3,000 to the defendant and the legal fees, but the respondent appealed the verdict.The defense counsel Lawyer Taher Al-Khateeb affirmed that the verdict issued by the Court of Appeals was correct in terms of promotion deserved by his client, insisting that the defense team’s claims are baseless and contrary to the documents.Father gets custody: The Criminal Court revoked custody of a young girl from her maternal grandmother and instead gave it to her father, barring the grandmother from receiving welfare funds for the care of the girl.Representing the father was Lawyer Nawaf Al-Muhandi who appealed the verdict of the lower court, which had granted the custody of his client’s daughter to her maternal grandmother.He insisted that the grandmother is not more capable of taking care of the girl than her real father who is financially stable and in a better position to take care of his daughter.The court studied the documents related to the grandmother, which Lawyer Al-Muhandi insisted were enough to change the ruling of the court due to its contents that proves the grandmother’s inability to properly take care of the daughter.He added that his client — the father — does not have any negative records that would disqualify him from taking charge of his daughter’s affairs.By Jaber Al-HamoudAl-Seyassah Staff