Court of appeal (Ivory Coast)

The Court of appeal is the highest Juridiction of the legal Ordre in Ivory Coast. It is the equivalent of the Council of State, which is the highest jurisdiction of the administrative Ordre of the Ivory Coast. It is a permanent jurisdiction, which sits at Abidjan

Under article 101 of the Constitution, " the judicial power is independent of the executive power and the capacity législatif".

Article 102 lays down the existence of supreme jurisdictions: a Court of appeal, a Council of State, and a Court of Auditors as well as Courses of calls and courts.

History

The Court of appeal exists in its current design only since 1998. Previously, it made party of the supreme court until the bursting of this one like was the Council of State and the Court of Auditors. It is member of the Association of the High jurisdictions of cassation of the countries having shares the use of the French of it.

Competences

The Court of appeal is a Juge of the right: it takes care of the respect of the law. It can thus pronounce the Cassation of a legal decision. However, it is not a question of a third degree of jurisdiction: the Court takes again the facts such as they were establish by a lower jurisdiction, and has role only with regard to the application of the right to these facts.

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