OHADA workshop, December 5, 2005 (Bamenda - Anglophone Cameroon)

• 09/12/2005
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On Monday, December 5, 2005, the bench and bar of Bamenda organized a workshop coordinated by Dr. Martha Tumnde, Dean of the University of Buea's Faculty of Social and Management Sciences and Prof. Claire Moore Dickerson of Rutgers University, visiting at the University of Buea, and sponsored by the French Cooperation and the African Association for a Unified System of Business Laws (UNIDA), presided by Mr. Kéba MBAYE. Justice Nkengla, President of the High Court of Mezam, Justice Anne Afong, President of the Court of First Instance, and Barrister Sama Francis of the Bamenda Bar deserve particular recognition for their efforts planning and organizing the workshop. The topics covered were OHADA laws on execution of judgments, on securities and on bankruptcy, as well as OHADA's general commercial law. The courts in Bamenda were closed so that the magistrates and lawyers could attend on a Monday. The Chief Justice of the High Court of the North West Province opened the session, and the Very Senior Barrister L.K. Sendze closed. In the course of the day, the lawyers and judges presented their analysis of the current state of the OHADA laws concerned; in each case, the presentations were highly informative, and the subsequent discussion was pointed and substantive. Among the 140 participants in the hall were 13 members of the Fako Lawyers Association who had come from Limbe for the day. These “Fakla” lawyers had organized a workshop in Limbe on the OHADA general commercial law on October 30, 2005, and brought their energy and knowledge to their colleagues Bamenda. At the closing, the Very Senior Barrister Sendze complimented the organizers for bringing the judiciary and the practicing lawyers together to discuss substantive issues, and thanked all participants for the lively and informative presentations and discussions. Barrister Sendze predicted that the OHADA business law unification process would in the coming years constitute an immense step forward for African legal unity and the enhanced economic rule of law resulting from the existence of a common, cross-border, system of business laws.