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Title: | The Scope for Uniform National Laws in Cameroon |
Author: | Fombad, Charles Manga |
Year: | 1991 |
Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies |
Volume: | 29 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | September |
Pages: | 443-456 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Cameroon |
Subjects: | legal reform conflict of laws Law, Human Rights and Violence Politics and Government |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/160881 |
Abstract: | This article examines and analyses some of the problems faced in developing what can be regarded as Cameroonian law, or the law applied in Cameroon. The various attempts to formulate such legislation, or to unify or at least harmonize some of the applicable received foreign laws, have been as delicate as they have been intricate. The article looks at the general character and scope of these legal developments, with particular emphasis on identifying impediments to this process and indicating broad guidelines for its improvement. It shows that the various reforms undertaken have resulted in a legal hybrid of sorts, consisting of one court structure in which two different legal systems operate and coexist. In other words, English common law continues to operate in certain provinces and French civil law in others. Besides overcoming obstacles of a legal and technical nature, the development of a common national system of law in Cameroon suffers from the lack of an adequate policy and machinery for effecting legal reforms, the dearth of a solid scientific basis, and the nonexistence of a system of law reporting. Notes, ref. |