REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON PEACE – WORK – FATHERLAND
No. 2006/16 OF 29 DECEMBER TO LAY DOWN THE ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONING OF THE SUPREME COURT
The Parliament deliberated and adopted, the President of the Republic hereby enacts the law set out below:
Section 1: The provisions of Sections 8, 11 and 37 of Law No. 2006/16 of 29 December 2006 to lay down the organization and functioning of the Supreme Court are amended and supplemented as follows:
Section 8: (new) The Judicial Bench shall comprise: - A Civil Division; - A Commercial Division; - A Criminal Division; - A Labour Division; - A Common Law Division; - A Customary Law Division.
Section 11: (new)
(1) Each division shall be composed as follows: - a President; - at least two Justices of the Supreme Court; - one or more Advocates General.
(2) The panel of Judges of a division shall at all times be composed of an odd number of judges.
(3) The Judicial Officers appointed to the Common Law Division must have an Anglo-Saxon legal background.
Section 37: (new) The Judicial Bench shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine: (a) final decisions of courts and tribunals on civil, commercial, criminal, labour and customary law cases and matters governed by Common law; (b) final decisions emanating from lower courts in all matters where the administration of the law is at issue; (c) application for release in the case of an admissible appeal; (d) all other matters expressly devolving on it by law.
Section 37-1: The Common Law Division shall have jurisdiction, in matters relating to Common law, to hear appeals against:
- final decisions of tribunals;
- judgments of courts of appeal."
Section 2: This law, which repeals all previous provisions repugnant hereto, shall be registered, published according to the procedure of urgency and inserted in the Official Gazette in English and French./-
YAOUNDE, 12 JUIL 2017