JUDICIAL DELAYS IN THE CAMEROONIAN LEGAL SYSTEM: HOW LONG IS TOO LONG?
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The problem of judicial delays may be as old as the law itself. It is very common in Cameroon to hear litigants and Lawyers complaint that their proceedings or litigation processes have over due in courts. But the intriguing question is how long is too long to characterize a procedure as being too long to constitute denial of justice? i.e. to say when can it be considered in Cameroon that justice delayed is justice denied and what accounts for these delays. This article seeks to answer this question by x-raying circumstances that lead to protracted judicial proceedings in terms of loopholes in legal provisions or irregularities in procedural rules and meddling in the course of justice by the administration. the author asses the fact that though it is difficult to set judicial timeframes for legal proceedings considering that each legal proceeding has its own complexities, it is necessary to incorporate the notion of reasonable time while adjudicating so as to avert judicial delays.
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