The apex court of Africa's clearest bijural state: the two anglophone regions apply common law and English-language procedure, the eight francophone regions apply civil law. The Supreme Court sits over both, which is the central difficulty and the central interest of Cameroonian law.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- supreme
- Court type
- Court of final appeal in a bijural system
- Jurisdiction
- National
- Seat
- Yaoundé
- Established
- 1961
- Composition
- Judicial, administrative and audit benches
- Languages
- French, English
Where an appeal goes next
Final on points of law; OHADA questions lie to the CCJA
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