The final instance on the interpretation and application of the OHADA Uniform Acts, displacing national supreme courts on commercial questions in all seventeen member states. It also administers arbitration under the OHADA Arbitration Rules.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- international
- Court type
- Supranational commercial court of final appeal
- Jurisdiction
- The seventeen OHADA member states
- Seat
- Abidjan
- Established
- 1997
- Composition
- Judges elected for a single non-renewable seven-year term
- Appointment
- Elected by the Council of Ministers of the member states
- Languages
- French, English, Portuguese, Spanish
Where an appeal goes next
Final
Filing at this court
- Time limit for a pourvoi
- Two months from service of the contested national appellate decision
- Effect of seising the CCJA
- The national supreme court is divested of jurisdiction over the Uniform Act question
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