By DOH JAMES SONKEY IN YAOUNDE
The Higher Magistracy Council will hold at Unity Palace next June 7, 2017 to examine disciplinary files, the promotion of magistrates, the transfer and posting of magistrates for the years 2015, 2016 and 2017 and submit to the President of the Council, Paul Biya for final decision. The body was summoned last May 12, 2017 by its Chair, President Paul Biya. To hold within a particular context marked by judicial reforms introduced by the government to solve preoccupations raised by Anglophone lawyers in the country, this session will certainly not ignore the Ayah Paul Abine’s case, a super scale magistrate arrested as a sitting attorney general at the Supreme Court at the dawn of the Anglophone crisis. His arrest raised a lot of criticism from lawyers who argue that it was in total violation of the laws of the land.
The President of the Republic, Paul Biya who is said to be bent at giving lasting solutions to preoccupations raised by Anglophones during the socio-political unrest may go the extra mile as he promised to appease his sons and daughters of the North West and South West Regions for real peace and unity to prevail in the country.
As revealed in one of his outings, Minister of State, Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals, Laurent Esso said President Paul Biya had ordered for survey to be carried out once again on the judicial needs of the two Anglophone regions of the country ahead of a redeployment of magistrates certainly after the announced Higher Judicial Council session.
The Higher Judicial Council that handles the careers of magistrates and higher judicial officers lastly met on December 18, 2014 to examine disciplinary files, the promotion of magistrates, the transfer and posting of magistrates for the years; 2012, 2013 and 2014.