New OHADA Law: Refresher Course for Lawyers

The seminar falls within the frame work of the continuous training mission of the Bar Council.

The Cameroon Bar Association in collaboration with the French embassy from June 14th to 16th at the premises of the Saint Jerome University in Douala, organised a seminar on the practice of arbitration and mediation by legal professionals at the dawn of the 2017 OHADA-adopted legislation.

Speaking during the opening ceremony, the president of the Bar council, Jackson Ngnie Kamga, said training is expensive but stressed that trainings were not organised to make money as it is out to help lawyers upgrade their knowledge, perfect their skills and to specialise. “With no good lawyers, there is no good justice”, he said. He said continuous training will be made compulsory for lawyers to ensure competence.

Participants during the seminar examined issues such as the innovations contained in the 2017 OHADA law concerning arbitration and mediation, the convention on arbitration, the legal frame work of mediation, mediation process, arbitration and judge confluences and divergences.

They also dwelled on the constitution of the arbitration tribunal, how to write a mediation...