KAS African Law Study Library

The study focuses on the prosecution as one of the actors of justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The author considers that this institution is omnipresent in the Congolese judicial area, especially since there is the prosecutor's office...

This article sheds light on the powers of a particular institution attached to the constitutional Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo: the general prosecutor office. After highlighting the attributes, it demonstrates that this institution is...

Justice! This word, full of symbols, embodies the aspiration of the victim of an offense who legitimately wishes to be heard in his will to punish the culprit as that of the unjustly questioned person who expects society to recognize his innocence....

The Congolese criminal justice system is putting the effectiveness of the rule of law to a severe test. There is an almost total inadequacy between the policing service it must provide to society and the rehabilitation of criminals who are members...

In a civil case, the device principle circumscribes the scope and content of the facts in accordance with the parties' motion in the proceeding. It therefore has the function of coming to determine the office of the parties as to the facts. This...

This study focuses on the analysis of the legal framework and the current challenges of the judge's challenge in Congolese civil proceeding. It demonstrates that curently the challenge of the judge is governed mainly by the provisions of Articles 49...

Enforcing the rule of irrelevance of official capacity for the purpose of prosecuting Government or State officials of States not party to the Rome Statute faces significant challenges in the practice of the International Criminal Court and raises...