Procedures
French-derived procedure with OHADA enforcement
Civil procedure follows the received French model with OHADA's recovery and enforcement Act applying to execution. The Cour suprême is the final national instance and the CCJA takes Uniform Act questions.
Key rules
- Jurisdiction — Tribunaux de première instance, Cours d'appel, Cour suprême, and the CCJA for Uniform Act points.
- Deadline — Appel: one month from service
- Deadline — Injonction de payer: opposition within fifteen days
Governing law
- Code de procédure civile tchadien
- Acte uniforme portant organisation des procédures simplifiées de recouvrement et des voies d'exécution
In practice
Formal civil litigation is concentrated in N'Djaména; outside the capital, disputes that would elsewhere reach a tribunal are commonly resolved by customary authorities, so the procedural code describes a narrower slice of actual dispute resolution than in the coastal OHADA states.