Procedures
Code de procédure civile with OHADA enforcement and CCJA appeal
Procedure follows the French model with appeal to the Cour d'appel and pourvoi to the Cour suprême, except on OHADA Uniform Act points where the CCJA is final. Enforcement uses the OHADA voies d'exécution.
Key rules
- Jurisdiction — Tribunal de première instance, Cour d'appel, then Cour suprême or the CCJA on Uniform Act questions.
- Deadline — Appeal: one month from service
- Deadline — Opposition to an injonction de payer: 15 days
- Deadline — CCJA pourvoi: two months
Governing law
- Loi L/2019/0035/AN portant Code de procédure civile, économique et administrative
- Acte uniforme portant organisation des procédures simplifiées de recouvrement et des voies d'exécution
In practice
Guinea recodified civil procedure in 2019 alongside the Code civil, consolidating economic and administrative procedure in one instrument. For commercial creditors the operative rules remain the OHADA enforcement Act, and arbitration under the CCJA rules is the common contractual choice for mining and infrastructure disputes precisely because domestic enforcement is slow.