Practice and procedure in civil matters in the courts of records in Anglophone Cameroon / Michael A. Yanou.

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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- Table of Cases -- Chapter One -- General Introduction -- Chapter Two -- Commencements of Civil Actions in the High Courts -- Introduction -- Cause of action -- Modes of Commencement of Civil Actions -- Writ of Summons -- Alternative Procedure for Claims -- Alternative procedure or Originating Summons? -- Commencing Probate Actions -- Revocation-procedure -- Motions -- Petitions -- Commencement of Labour Actions -- Irregularity in the commencement of action -- Chapter Three -- Jurisdiction -- Jurisdiction over administrative Acts: A procedural perspective -- Jurisdiction and Condition Precedent -- Chapter Four -- Actions Brought Under the Simplified Recovery Procedures Measures of Enforcement of the OHADA Uniform Act. -- Introduction -- Recovery of debt or Property -- Recovery of Monetary Claims -- Action to Recover Property -- Procedure -- Procedure for actions involving ships -- Chapter Five -- Parties -- Objections With Regards To Party -- Inter-pleader Proceedings -- Suit in a Representative Action -- Locus Standi -- Chapter Six -- Intervener Proceedings -- Third Party Proceedings -- Joinder of Parties -- Chapter Seven -- Appearance -- Default of Appearance -- Absconding defendant -- Conditional appearance -- Chapter Eight -- Venue -- Transfer of Suit to Different Judicial Divisions -- Chapter Nine -- Hearings -- Dealing with documentary evidence -- Notice to produce -- Interrogatories -- Affidavit Evidence & Documents: a procedural perspective -- Hearsay Rule -- Experts -- Chapter Ten -- Service of Process -- Introduction -- Irregular service -- Substituted Service -- Chapter Eleven -- Pleadings -- Principal Character of Proceedings -- Rules of Pleadings -- Statement of Claim -- Contents of a Statement of Claim -- Statement of Defence.

Matters Which Must be Specifically Pleaded -- Chapter Twelve -- Amendments -- Chapter Thirteen -- Preliminary Applications -- Applying For Injunctive Orders -- Procedure for applying for injunction -- Interlocutory Injunction: Procedural Issues -- Principles for grant of injunctions -- Serious question to be tried -- Adequacy of damages to the applicant -- Balance of convenience -- Status quo -- Chapter Fourteen -- Judgments -- Courts Bound by the case brought by the parties -- Non Suit -- Chapter Fifteen -- Appeals -- Time for Filling Appeals & Extension of Time to Appeal -- Place for filling appeals -- Conditions of appeal -- Leave of court to file appeals against interlocutory orders -- Nature of grounds of appeal -- Appeals operate to stay execution -- Labour appeals -- Appeal on Points of Law and Fact -- Interlocutory Applications in the Court of Appeal -- Further Evidence on Appeal -- Striking out and relisting appeals -- Chapter Sixteen -- Garnishe Orders and Stay of Execution -- Garnishe Orders -- Procedure for garnishee proceedings -- Provisional Execution -- Stay of Execution -- Supreme Court Civil Procedure Rules -- ORDER I -- APPLICATION -- ORDER II -- FORM AND COMMENCEMENT OF SUITS -- ORDER III -- PARTICULARS OF CLAIMS -- ORDER IV -- PARTIES -- ORDER V -- PLAINITFF OUT OF JURISDICTION -- ORDER VI -- GUARDIAN FOR PURPOSES OF SUIT -- ORDER VII -- PLACE OF INSTITUTING AND OF TRIAL OF SUITS -- ORDER VIII -- GENERAL FORMS OF PROCESS -- ORDER IX -- SERVICE OF PROCESS -- ORDER X -- SERVICE IN NIGERIA FOR FOREIGN TRIBUNALS -- ORDER XI -- COMPUTATION OF TIME -- ORDER XII -- ATTENDANCE OF WITNESSES -- ORDER XIII -- EVIDENCE -- ORDER XIV -- COSTS BETWEEN PARTY AND PARTY -- ORDER XV -- APPEARANCE OF PARTIES -- ORDER XVI -- SOLICITORS -- ORDER XVII -- SOLICITORS AND THE PREPARATION OF LEGAL DOCUMENTS -- ORDER XVIII -- RECOVERY OF COSTS BY SOLICITORS.

ORDER XIX -- ARREST OF ABSCONDING DEFENDANT -- ORDER XX -- INTERIM ATTACHMENT OF PROPERTY -- ORDER XXI -- INJUNCTIONS, ETC. -- ORDER XXIII -- REPARATION FOR NEEDLESS ARRESTS, ETC. -- ORDER XXIV -- RELIEF FROM ADVERSE CLAIMS -- ORDER XXV -- TENDER -- ORDER XXVI -- EQUITABLE RELIEF, COUNTERCLAIM, SETOFF -- ORDER XXVII -- PAYMENT INTO COURT -- ORDER XXVIII -- DISMISSAL OF SUIT ON GROUNDS OF LAW -- ORDER XXIX -- INTERROGATORIES -- DISCOVERY AND PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS -- ORDER XXX -- ADMISSIONS -- ORDER XXXI -- SETTLEMENT OF ISSUES -- ORDER XXXII -- PLEADINGS -- ORDER XXXIII -- AMENDMENT OF PROCEEDING -- ORDER XXXIV -- INTERLOCUTORY APPLICATIONS -- ORDER XXXV -- ALTERATION OF PARTIES -- ORDER XXXVI -- ENTRY OF CAUSES FOR HEARING -- ORDER XXXVII -- POSTPONEMENT OF HEARING -- ORDER XXXVIII -- SITTING OF COURT -- ORDER XXXIX -- TRIAL -- ORDER XL -- NON -- ATTENDANCE OF PARTIES AT HEARING -- ORDER XLI -- PROCEEDINGS AT THE HEARING -- ORDER XLII -- SUPPLEMENTAL STATEMENTS -- ORDER XLIII -- REFERENCES -- ORDER XLIV -- DISCONTINUANCE OF SUITS -- ORDER XLV -- NON -- SUIT -- ORDER XLVI -- JUDGEMENT -- ORDER XLVI -- PROCEEDINGS UNDER THE LEGITIMACY ORDINANCE -- ORDER XLVIII -- PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATTION -- ORDER XLIX -- REFERENCE TO ARBITRATION -- ORDER L -- APPEALS FROM NATIVE COURTS IN CIVIL CASES -- ORDER LI -- APPLICATIONS UNDER SECTION 47 OF THE NATIVE COURTS ORDINANCE -- ORDER LII -- MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS -- Back cover.

This book, the first of its kind on Anglophone Cameroon, brings significant local context into the practice of law particularly at a juncture when civil practice has been radically altered by Cameroon's ongoing effort at harmonization of both the substantive and procedural laws applicable in the courts. The book covers a wide spectrum of topics including: the commencement of civil actions, jurisdiction, simplified recovery procedures and measures of execution, provisional execution and stay of execution. It provides a detailed analysis of the relevant rules of court applicable in both the high court and court of appeal. One of its major strengths lies in its use of recent cases to demonstrate the way Cameroonian judges have dealt with local procedural laws, as well as how the differences between Cameroonian indigenous rules of practice and those imported particularly from Nigeria and England are reconciled.

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