| Stated Role |
1) The Ministry for Justice is placed under the authority of a Minister, assisted of a Deputy Minister and a Secretary of State especially in charge of the prison authorities. (2) The Minister for Justice, Minister of Justice is charged: - drafting of the legislative and lawful texts relating to nationality, the rules concerning the conflicts of the laws, to the statute of the magistrates, the organization and operation of High Court of Justice, the Supreme Court, the Higher Council of the Magistrature and with the legal organization; - drafting of the legislative and lawful texts relating to the statute of the people and goods, to the mode of the obligations and contracts in civil and commercial matters, to the rules of procedure and competence in front of all the civil jurisdictions, with the criminal general and special law, the organization of the occupations of lawyer and auxiliary of Justice; - instruction of the files of recourse in grace and release on parole; - development and implementation of the penitentiary policy; it is in particular responsible for the organization and the follow-up of the operation of the centers of detention and the prisons as well as staff management concerned with the Prison authorities; - conservation and affixing of the seals of the Republic of Cameroun. (3) It chairs the commissions of legislative and legal reform and ensures the operation of the jurisdictions and the discipline of the magistrates, clerks and civils servant concerned with his authority. It takes care of the discipline of lawyers and auxiliaries of justice. It ensures the supervision of the National School of the Prison authorities. Article 2: For the achievement of his missions, the Minister for Justice, Minister of Justice lays out: - particular Secretariats; - of three (03) Technical Advisers; - of a General Inspection; - of Police headquarters; - decentralized Services |