KUWAIT: An Amiri decree was issued on Monday appointing Nasser Yousef Mohammad Al-Sumait as Minister of Justice. Below is his biography:

Counselor Nasser Al-Sumait was born in 1981. He holds a BA in Law from Kuwait University in 2002 and a Master’s degree in Commercial Law and Arbitration from the Gulf University in the Kingdom of Bahrain in 2009. He passed the foundational course for legal researchers, qualifying for appointment as a public prosecutor at the Kuwait Institute for Judicial and Legal Studies in 2005.

He worked in a number of different prosecution offices as a deputy public prosecutor from 2006 to 2014, deputy director of the juvenile prosecution between 2014 and 2016, and director of the juvenile prosecution between 2016 and 2019. Al-Sumait passed the foundation course, qualifying him to work in the judiciary at the Kuwait Institute for Judicial and Legal Studies in 2019.

He was a judge in the Court of First Instance in the juvenile, misdemeanor appeal, partial appeal, and government circuits between 2019 and 2021 and the Chief Prosecutor at the Public Prosecutor’s Office between 2021 and 2024. Al-Sumait has been a consultant and public attorney at the Public Prosecution since 2024 until the issuance of the decree appointing him as Minister of Justice.

Al-Sumait also served as a member of the Supreme National Committee for Child Protection and a member of the Judicial Inspection Committees on the work of public prosecutors and supervised the work of the Juvenile Prosecution, Jahra Prosecution, Drugs and Alcohol Prosecution, Family Prosecution, the Office of Examining Reports and Complaints and their workflow — reviewing the data of their monthly statements, disposing of referrals and filings in cases, and a member of the Disciplinary Council for Members of the Diplomatic and Consular Corps at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He also served as an expert specializing in the field of human trafficking crimes in the registry of the Arab Public Prosecutors Association and a lecturer at the Kuwait Institute for Judicial and Legal Studies. Nasser Al-Sumait worked on training legal researchers nominated to work as agents of the public prosecutor at the Kuwait Institute for Judicial and Legal Studies, in addition to a number of local and international experiences and participations. — KUNA