Under the broken scale of justice : the law and my times / by Justice Ny'o Wakai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wakai, Nyo', 1935-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wakai, Nyo', 1935-.

Wakai, Nyo'.

Justice, Administration of--Cameroon--History.

Justice, Administration of.

Law--Cameroon--History.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Pub., 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 sys

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface I; Preface II; An Attorney's Prayer; Introduction; Part One; CHAPTER I - LUX GENTIUM LEX; CHAPTER II - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS; CHAPTER III - THE LEGAL PROFESSION; Chapter IV - Legal Cultures; CHAPTER V - GOOD GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNANCE; CHAPTER VI - SUPREMACY OF THE LAW; Part Two; CHAPTER VII - THE BENCH; CHAPTER VIII - JUSTICE; CHAPTER IX - THE CONSTITUTION; CHAPTER X - LAW REPORTING; CHAPTER XI - The Broken Scales of Justice; CHAPTER XII - Signature; Back cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9956-717-39-8

1-283-19862-2

9956-717-27-4

9786613198624

9956-615-97-8

OCLC:

830165092