New men at the helm of the Cameroon Supreme Court

 Higher Council of Magistracy meeting at Unity Palace
The body that handles the careers of magistrates and higher judicial officers met at Unity Palace on Thursday 18 December 2014 with President Paul BIYA presiding over the deliberations that lasted over five hours.

The members of the Council arrived Unity Palace this morning by 10 am, alongside some magistrates whose disciplinary files were to be examined at the session, accompanied by their lawyers. Notable amongst the members of the Council was the Vice President, Mr. Laurent ESSO, Minister of State for Justice and Keeper of the Seals, as well as Mr. Jean Akame Mfoumou, the Secretary of the Council.

The agenda of the sitting included an examination of disciplinary files, the promotion of magistrates, the transfer and posting of magistrates for the years 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Speaking to the press at the end of the sitting, the Minister of State and Keeper of the Seals Mr. Laurent ESSO declared that the Council had made proposals to the Head of State who will take the final decision on the issues that were discussed.

New men at the helm of the Cameroon Supreme Court

Alexis Dipanda Mouelle, Martin Rissouck to Moulong and Clement Atangana, now retired, leaving the court after a long remarkable journey.

Is expected in the coming days the swearing in of new officers of the Supreme Court. Those who worked in the Court of Appeal before 2012 are preparing for this solemn ceremony. The two main leaders of the Supreme Court left the court of appeal, that two years ago in favor of the 2012 Mekobe Sone movement has been for a decade, the president of that court while Luc Ndjodo was the Attorney General.

They last Thursday respectively President and General Counsel at the Supreme Court. Dagobert Bisseck, the new president of the court room, climbed the levels of responsibility to the Supreme Court. Former President of the Central Court of Appeal, it was chapter president to court room. Another advisor to the Supreme Court, André Belombe takes the head of the Administrative Chamber.

The general prosecutor's office at the Supreme Court, George Mbengue crosses a walk. This former general counsel becomes the first General Counsel. The Advocates General Group has henceforth Ayah Paul Abine. The judge outside the hierarchy of the 1st group joined the judiciary after a detachment secondary to his parliamentary seat in the National Assembly. During this term, from 2007 to 2013, he resigned from the ruling party, the CPDM. With the party he created, he could not get re-elected at the last parliamentary election. The other major fact of this movement is the retirement of ten judges of the high court and wooden floors. Found on the train retired the first incumbent president Alexis Dipanda Mouelle, outgoing Attorney General Martin Rissouck to Moulong, the outgoing president of the Administrative Chamber Clément Atangana.