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Practice & procedure in civil matters in the courts of records in Anglophone Cameroon /

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 th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yanou, Michael A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.