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    Under The Broken Scale of Justice. The Law and My Times: The Law and My Times
    Under The Broken Scale of Justice. The Law and My Times: The Law and My Times
    Under The Broken Scale of Justice. The Law and My Times: The Law and My Times
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    Under The Broken Scale of Justice. The Law and My Times: The Law and My Times

    By Nyo' Wakai

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    This book explores the latent and sometimes overt undercurrents that have shaped the judicial history of Cameroon since the United Nations Trusteeship period. It is an insightful account by a critical observer privileged to serve as Director of Public Prosecutions and a judge in a post-independence context characterized by dual and often conflictual legal systems inspired by French and English colonialism. Justice Nyo'Wakai demonstrates how the conflict of judicial concepts, procedures and usages have led to the Francophone judicial system trying to impose itself on the Anglophone judicial system in Cameroon. Often reduced to toothless bulldogs by new constitutional dispensations informed largely by the French colonial legacy and Francophone realities, Anglophones have bemoaned the independence of the Judiciary identified with their Anglo-Saxon heritage. In the face of such domination and the highhandedness of the Executive, only mature cool headedness and the ability to bend over backwards on the part of Anglophone legal practitioners have contained the explosive situation and allowed for a gradual evolution of the Judicial System in Cameroon.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLangaa RPCIG
    Release dateNov 15, 2008
    ISBN9789956717392
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