Download or read book The Cameroonian Judicial System written by Carlson Anyangwe and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Under The Broken Scale of Justice The Law and My Times written by Nyo' Wakai and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the latent and sometimes overt undercurrents that have shaped the judicial history of Cameroon since the United Nations Trusteeship period. It is an insightful account by a critical observer privileged to serve as Director of Public Prosecutions and a judge in a post-independence context characterized by dual and often conflictual legal systems inspired by French and English colonialism. Justice Nyo'Wakai demonstrates how the conflict of judicial concepts, procedures and usages have led to the Francophone judicial system trying to impose itself on the Anglophone judicial system in Cameroon. Often reduced to toothless bulldogs by new constitutional dispensations informed largely by the French colonial legacy and Francophone realities, Anglophones have bemoaned the independence of the Judiciary identified with their Anglo-Saxon heritage. In the face of such domination and the highhandedness of the Executive, only mature cool headedness and the ability to bend over backwards on the part of Anglophone legal practitioners have contained the explosive situation and allowed for a gradual evolution of the Judicial System in Cameroon.

Download or read book Practice and Procedure in Civil Matters in the Courts of Records in Anglophone Cameroon written by A. Yanou and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first of its kind on Anglophone Cameroon, brings significant local context into the practice of law particularly at a juncture when civil practice has been radically altered by Cameroons ongoing effort at harmonization of both the substantive and procedural laws applicable in the courts. The book covers a wide spectrum of topics including: the commencement of civil actions, jurisdiction, simplified recovery procedures and measures of execution, provisional execution and stay of execution. It provides a detailed analysis of the relevant rules of court applicable in both the high court and court of appeal. One of its major strengths lies in its use of recent cases to demonstrate the way Cameroonian judges have dealt with local procedural laws, as well as how the differences between Cameroonian indigenous rules of practice and those imported particularly from Nigeria and England are reconciled.

Download or read book The Magistracy and the Bar in Cameroon written by Carlson Anyangwe and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Readings in the Cameroon Criminal Procedure Code written by Andrew Ewang Sone and published by Presses univresitaires d'Afr. This book was released on 2007 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Engaging the Pluralistic Nature of African Societies written by Julie Ada Tchoukou and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Customary law and traditional institutions once constituted the comprehensive legal system regulating a wide spectrum of activities in Cameroon. However, this system of law which now exists in the context of legal pluralism has presented great challenges as the Cameroonian legal system has failed to find an appropriate and efficient way of negotiating with the co-existence of multiple legal orders. There are several factors which can be used to explain why customary law as an institution is continuously taking steps backward. This is especially the case in Cameroon with a colonial history where the creation of state structures, laws and regulations did not evolve indigenously, but instead arrived through colonization. These processes created tension between socially accepted practices and the new, formal legal systems which are highly reflective of the modernizing ambition of the post-colonial state. The thesis explores both the formal and informal processes of judicial adjudication of customary disputes with the aim of highlighting important avenues for understanding the relationship between the state and indigenous Cameroonians. It also engages with the theoretical analysis of the effects of current institutionalization of customary rules by the state legal system. This will be done in light of current efforts and challenges to ascertain and codify this system of law. This is because, an overview of current jurisprudence of formal courts in Cameroon reveals that much of the disputes that have arisen in these courts have a lot to do with questions linked to social realities of people, in terms of their cultural beliefs and practices. As such it becomes necessary to understand customary law adjudication, explore its relevance, its rules and evolution to ensure that this system contributes to addressing needs of the Cameroonian state." --

Download or read book Cameroonian Judiciary and Its New Institutions written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cameroon criminal procedure code and international criminal law written by and published by Presses univresitaires d'Afr. This book was released on 2007 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Language and Legal Proceedings written by Endurence Midinette Koumassol Dissake and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates language-related problems which arise in courtroom discourse in the Republic of Cameroon, in Central Africa. While Cameroon has over 250 national languages, court cases are conducted in the two official languages: English and French. This is despite the fact that 40% of the adult population is illiterate in these languages, and means that lay litigants often encounter language-related problems during trials. In this study, the author makes use of Speech Act Theory and Interactional Sociolinguistics to analyse the speech acts of both legal professionals and lay litigants as observed in 37 legal cases, demonstrating how the use of exoglossic languages in a highly multilingual nation constitutes a serious issue. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of Forensic Linguistics, Language Policy and Planning, and Discourse Analysis, particularly those with an interest in the African context.

Download or read book The Administration of Justice in a Bi jural Country written by Carlson Anyangwe and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an exercise in practical comparative law. It examines how justice is administered in a unitary State with two extraneous legal systems, the common law and the civil law. The whole work is divided into six main parts. Part One explores the phenomenon of law in pre-colonial societies and explains how Cameroon came to have two extraneous legal systems. The German, French and British systems of colonial justice in Cameroon are critically discussed in Part Two. Part Three takes the machinery of justice as its focus of inquiry. It begins with a survey of the constitutional setting and them proceeds to deal with the courts system and the outward manifestation of the legal order - the magistracy and the legal profession. Part Five treats the administration of criminal and military justice while Part Four concentrates on those branches of the civil law on which there is now a common substantive law and procedure, namely, labour law, le contentieux administratif, and customary law. Part Six rounds off this study with an examination of a number of topical issues - human rights, law reform, legal education, and the cost of justice. The entire thesis runs to twenty chapters. Style and treatment have not been the same in all of them. Nor has an attempt been made to give equal space and attention to each part or chapter - as if one were dividing an academic cake into symmetrical slices. There are topics which call for and have received more detailed analysis than others.

Download or read book The Constitution and Governance in Cameroon written by Laura-Stella E. Enonchong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a systematic analysis of the major structural and institutional governance mechanisms in Cameroon, critically analysing the constitutional and legislative texts on Cameroon’s semi-presidential system, the electoral system, the legislature, the judiciary, the Constitutional Council and the National Commission on Human Rights and Freedoms. The author offers an assessment of the practical application of the laws regulating constitutional institutions and how they impact on governance. To lay the groundwork for the analysis, the book examines the historical, constitutional and political context of governance in Cameroon, from independence and reunification in 1960–1961, through the adoption of the 1996 Constitution, to more recent events including the current Anglophone crisis. Offering novel insights on new institutions such as the Senate and the Constitutional Council and their contribution to the democratic advancement of Cameroon, the book also provides the first critical assessment of the legislative provisions carving out a special autonomy status for the two Anglophone regions of Cameroon and considers how far these provisions go to resolve the Anglophone Problem. This book will be of interest to scholars of public law, legal history and African politics. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351028868, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Download or read book The Department of Public Prosecution and Judicial Police in Cameroon written by Chimontoh Zonipoh Akomandoh and published by Miraclaire Publishing. This book was released on with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Public Prosecution and Judicial Police in Cameroon, while tracing the historical background of the Legal Department, carefully walks you through its institutional framework and governing principles, while highlighting its omnipresence at all phases of the procedure (police investigation, preliminary inquiry, hearing before the Courts as well as in the execution of Court Judgments). The said ubiquitous presence is accentuated by the lawmakers who in some instances render it not only necessary but mandatory as well. Curiously, the Department of Public Prosecution is presented as that principal party who is not responsible for malicious prosecution. Chief Justice Bechem Eyong Eneke President Court of Appeal, Buea, South West Region &&&&& This book is incontrovertibly a major contribution towards the development of Cameroons legal system. It presents the Public Prosecution Department (Legal Department), incarnated by the Public Prosecutor (State Counsel), as one of the rare omnipresent actors in criminal proceedings whose presence in all phases of the criminal procedure is almost mandatory, while her role is primordial. It presents a cogent, critical, and lucid analysis of the multi-dimensional institution embodied by the State Counsel from a historical perspective and within the context of the CPC. In a clear and simple style, the book provides practical solutions to diverse theoretical and practical issues faced by legal practitioners in the application of the CPC pertaining to the institution the Legal Department. The discussion is incisive, meticulous, and buttressed with statutory provisions and available cases. Bih Che épouse Anye Nde Abegley State Counsel, Court of First Instance Bali, North West Region

Download or read book Constitutional Law in Cameroon written by Charles Manga Fombad and published by Kluwer Law International. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this very useful analysis of constitutional law in Cameroon provides essential information on the countryand’s sources of constitutional law, its form of government, and its administrative structure. Lawyers who handle transnational matters will appreciate the clarifications of particular terminology and its application. Throughout the book, the treatment emphasizes the specific points at which constitutional law affects the interpretation of legal rules and procedure. Thorough coverage by a local expert fully describes the political system, the historical background, the role of treaties, legislation, jurisprudence, and administrative regulations. The discussion of the form and structure of government outlines its legal status, the jurisdiction and workings of the central state organs, the subdivisions of the state, its decentralized authorities, and concepts of citizenship. Special issues include the legal position of aliens, foreign relations, taxing and spending powers, emergency laws, the power of the military, and the constitutional relationship between church and state. Details are presented in such a way that readers who are unfamiliar with specific terms and concepts in varying contexts will fully grasp their meaning and significance. Its succinct yet scholarly nature, as well as the practical quality of the information it provides, make this book a valuable time-saving tool for both practising and academic jurists. Lawyers representing parties with interests in Cameroon will welcome this guide, and academics and researchers will appreciate its value in the study of comparative constitutional law.

Download or read book The Bakassi Dispute and the International Court of Justice written by Edwin Egede and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 10th of October 2002 the International Court of Justice delivered the Bakassi decision, which, amongst other things, excised the resource rich land and maritime territory of Bakassi from Nigeria and transferred its legal title to Cameroon. These two countries under the auspices of the United Nations established the mechanism of the Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission to honour and implement their obligations under the ICJ decision. Over a decade after the ICJ decision this volume brings together academics and practitioners to assess the impact of this decision and the challenges and issues that have been raised in the course of its implementation. Hailed by some as a model of preventive diplomacy and a blueprint for the future, this timely assessment illuminates the difficulties in imposing such controversial decisions and considers whether this type of Mixed Commission is an adequate mechanism for implementing them.

Download or read book Cameroon Constitutional Law written by H. N. A. Enonchong and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Development of the Laws and Constitution of Cameroon written by John Nkengong Monie and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Federal Republic of Cameroon which came into existence on October 1, 1961, is made up of former Southern Cameroons which was administered by the British Government as an integral part of her Colony of Nigeria, and the Republic of Cameroon - a former trust territory under French Administration. Thus West Cameroon (i.e. former Southern Cameroons) was endowed with a legal system akin to that of Nigeria, and therefore of Great Britain, and East Cameroon (i.e. the former Republic of Cameroon) was endowed with the French legal system. This thesis, the first of its kind, attempts to trace the development of the laws and constitution of Cameroon within the framework not only of these two major foreign legal systems, but also of the indigenous systems. The work is divided into three Parts comprising of twelve chapters. Part I, comprising only of Chapter I, deals with a general historical and ethnographic survey of Cameroon. An attempt has been made, particularly in connection with the historical introduction, to piece together the various treaties and agreements which gave Cameroon her present boundaries. Part II comprises of Chapters II - IV. Chapter II deals with the administration, by the French and British Governments, within the framework of the Mandate and Trusteeship systems, of their respective parts of Cameroon. Attention is also paid to the political and constitutional developments leading to independence and reunification. These include the United Nations conducted plebiscites in the Cameroons and the Cameroons: case at the International Court of Justice which arose therefrom. Chapter III is devoted to an analysis of the Federal and Federated State constitutions while Chapter IV deals with the courts and legal profession in Cameroon. Part III comprises Chapters V - XII, each of which deals with a specific subject. Thus Chapter V traces the Sources of Law in Cameroon while Chapter VI deals with Procedure and Evidence. The five others deal respectively with Criminal Law, Civil Law (i.e. Contract and Tort), Commercial Law, Land Law and Family Law. Chapter XII deals briefly with the attempts, few as they are, which have been made to integrate the law. In each of the chapters in this part, we have tried to deal with both the French and English law on each topic, the aim being to point out where they are different and to make suggestions for dealing with such differences. Although these suggestions have sometimes come out either in favour of French or English law where either system was thought better, we have not ceased to emphasize the tremendous advantage in being able to produce new laws based on the best from both systems.

Download or read book Mixed Legal Systems East and West written by Vernon Valentine Palmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advancing legal scholarship in the area of mixed legal systems, as well as comparative law more generally, this book expands the comparative study of the world’s legal families to those of jurisdictions containing not only mixtures of common and civil law, but also to those mixing Islamic and/or traditional legal systems with those derived from common and/or civil law traditions. With contributions from leading experts in their fields, the book takes us far beyond the usual focus of comparative law with analysis of a broad range of countries, including relatively neglected and under-researched areas. The discussion is situated within the broader context of the ongoing development and evolution of mixed legal systems against the continuing tides of globalization on the one hand, and on the other hand the emergence of Islamic governments in some parts of the Middle East, the calls for a legal status for Islamic law in some European countries, and the increasing focus on traditional and customary norms of governance in post-colonial contexts. This book will be an invaluable source for students and researchers working in the areas of comparative law, legal pluralism, the evolution of mixed legal systems, and the impact of colonialism on contemporary legal systems. It will also be an important resource for policy-makers and analysts.