*ENAM CONCOURS…competitive examination for the recruitment of forty (40) Judicial Auditors into the Magistracy and Clerks Division of the National School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM) for the academic year 2025/2026…(Reg. Details, Exam Format and Sylabus in English)*

REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON
Peace – Work – Fatherland
MINISTRY OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM

DECREE No. /001216 / MINFOPRA / OF 15 APR 2025
Concerning the opening of a competitive examination for the recruitment of forty (40) Judicial Auditors into the Magistracy and Clerks Division of the National School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM) for the academic year 2025/2026.

THE MINISTER OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM,

HAVING REGARD TO the Constitution;
HAVING REGARD TO Law No. 2017/010 of 12 July 2017 on the General Statute of Public Establishments;
HAVING REGARD TO Decree No. 94/199 of 7 October 1994 on the General Statute of the State Public Service, together with its subsequent amendments;

HAVING REGARD TO Decree No. 095/048 of 8 March 1995 on the Statute of the Magistracy and its subsequent amendments, notably Decree No. 2012/188 of 18 April 2012 amending and supplementing Article 11 (new) of Decree No. 2004/080 of 13 April 2004;
HAVING REGARD TO Decree No. 2011/408 of 9 December 2011 on the organization of the Government, as amended and supplemented by Decree No. 2018/190 of 2 March 2018;
HAVING REGARD TO Decree No. 2012/537 of 19 November 2012 on the organization of the Ministry of the Public Service and Administrative Reform;
HAVING REGARD TO Decree No. 2018/191 of 2 March 2018 on the reorganization of the Government;
HAVING REGARD TO Decree No. 2018/240 of 9 April 2018 on the reorganization of the National School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM);
HAVING REGARD TO Decree No. 040/PM of 19 May 2022 setting the modalities for granting age exemptions to persons with disabilities during administrative examinations and recruitments in the State Public Service;
HAVING REGARD TO Decree No. 2000/696/PM of 13 September 2000 establishing the general regime for administrative examinations;
HAVING REGARD TO Decree No. 0004831/MINFOPRA of 10 October 2012 on the regime of studies and schooling in the Administrative and Financial Regulations Divisions of the National School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM);
HAVING REGARD TO Decree No. 00000490/MINFI of 21 December 2022 specifying the practical modalities for implementing administrative examination fees,

DECREES:

Article 1:
(1) A competitive examination for the recruitment of forty (40) Judicial Auditors into the Magistracy and Clerks Division of ENAM is open for the academic year 2025/2026.
(2) The available places are distributed as follows: [Details not provided in the text].
(3) The related program is attached as an annex.

Article 2:
Eligible candidates must meet the following conditions:

• Hold a Master I or a Maîtrise in Private Law or Public Law from a Cameroonian university, or a foreign diploma recognized as equivalent by the Minister in charge of Higher Education;
• Be at least seventeen (17) years old and no older than thirty-two (32) years as of 1 January 2025;
• However, persons with disabilities holding a National Disability Card issued by the competent authorities may benefit from an age exemption of up to five (5) years above the age limit specified above, in accordance with Decree No. 040/PM of 19 May 2022 mentioned above.

Article 3:
(1) Application forms can be downloaded from the ENAM website (www.enam.cm).
(2) The examination registration fee is twenty-five thousand (25,000) CFA francs.
(3) Candidates shall pay their registration fees in cash against a receipt at BICEC agencies.
(4) Candidates may submit their application files directly to ENAM in Yaoundé or to the Regional Delegations of the Ministry of the Public Service and Administrative Reform.
(5) Applications must reach ENAM or the Regional Delegations of the Ministry of the Public Service and Administrative Reform no later than Friday, 30 May 2025, which is the strict deadline.
(6) The required documents are as follows:

• A stamped envelope at one thousand five hundred (1,500) CFA francs;
• An application form stamped at one thousand five hundred (1,500) CFA francs, previously downloaded from the ENAM website (www.enam.cm);
• A certified true copy of the required diploma;
• A certificate of presentation of the original diploma signed by the Regional Governor, Prefect, or Sub-Prefect;
• A certificate of presentation of the original Baccalaureate or any other diploma that allowed access to higher education, signed by the Regional Governor, Prefect, or Sub-Prefect;
• A receipt of payment of the examination registration fee issued by BICEC;
• A criminal record bulletin (Bulletin No. 3) dated less than three (3) months from the date of file submission, issued by the competent judicial authorities;
• A medical certificate dated less than three (3) months from the date of file submission, signed by a doctor from the Administration;
• A certified true copy of the birth certificate, handwritten or typed, signed by an administrative or municipal authority.

Note: Any incomplete file or containing documents deemed false or forged will be rejected.
(7) The lists of candidates authorized to take the examination will be posted at ENAM no later than Wednesday, 4 June 2025.

Note: The publication of these lists serves as an individual summons.

Article 4:
(1) The written eligibility tests, which will take place at the sole center in Yaoundé, will be held on the following dates and times:
a) Tests common to all sections:

• General Culture:
  • Date: Saturday, 7 June 2025, from 7:30 AM to 11:30 AM
  • Duration: 4 hours
  • Coefficient: 02
    b) Specialty Tests 1:
• Judicial Section: Criminal Law/Criminal Procedure Test
• Administrative Section: Constitutional Law Test
  • Date: Saturday, 7 June 2025, from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Duration: 4 hours
  • Coefficient: [Not specified in the provided text]

Article 5:
The oral admission tests will take place in Yaoundé (ENAM). They include:

• A grand oral: Coefficient 1
• A language oral: Coefficient 1

Article 6:
Receipts for applications for national identity cards dated less than three (3) months from the closing date of examination registrations will not be accepted.

Article 7:
Any fraud detected before, during, or after the examination will be sanctioned in accordance with the laws and regulations in force.

Article 8:
This decree shall be registered and published wherever necessary.

YAOUNDE, 15 APR 2025
THE MINISTER OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM,
JOSEPH LE

SERVICES OF THE PRIME MINISTER
VISA
000358 14 APR 2025
PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE

PROGRAM OF THE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION TO ENAM, JUDICIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE SECTIONS OF THE MAGISTRACY AND CLERKS DIVISION, FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2025/2026

I- WRITTEN ELIGIBILITY TESTS:

A- GENERAL CULTURE:

• Literature, philosophy, contemporary history;
• Scientific and technological evolution;
• Arts and culture;
• Gender and development;
• Regional integration;
• Geopolitics and geostrategy;
• ICT and their impact on society;
• Social, economic, political, and judicial issues in Cameroonian, African, and global society;
• Current affairs.

B- SPECIALTY TESTS:

1. JUDICIAL SECTION:

a- CIVIL LAW / CIVIL PROCEDURE:

1. CIVIL LAW:

• Foundations and Characteristics of Legal Rules:
• Sources of Law:
  • Sources of inspiration for Cameroonian law;
  • Texts: the Constitution, international conventions, legislative and regulatory texts;
  • Non-textual sources of law: general principles of law, custom, jurisprudence.
• Subjects of Law:
  • Distinction between natural persons and legal entities;
  • Identification of persons;
  • Personality rights;
  • Patrimonial rights;
  • Legal personality;
  • Incapacities;
  • Cameroonian nationality.
• The Family:
  • Marriage: types, formation, effects, proof, sanctions;
  • Divorce and separation of bodies;
  • Filiation: legitimate, natural, adoptive;
  • Kinship and alliance: main obligations arising from kinship and alliance;
  • Maintenance obligation (conditions, execution, characteristics).
• Matrimonial Regimes:
  • General regime;
  • Legal matrimonial regime;
  • Conventional matrimonial regimes.
• Succession:
  • General regime;
  • Testamentary succession;
  • Legal succession.
• Obligations:
  • General regime: sources, typology, foundations, execution, extinction;
  • Contracts: characterization, guiding principles, formation, effects, extinction, sanctions;
  • Legal facts: torts, quasi-torts, and quasi-contracts.
• Property:
  • Historical evolution and categories;
  • Patrimony;
  • Individual property: property rights, methods of acquiring property, management, and protection of property;
  • Divided property: dismemberments of property rights, servitudes, long-term leases;
  • Shared property: co-ownership, undivided ownership, party walls;
  • Land and public domain regime in Cameroon.
• Private International Law:
  • General principles;
  • Conflicts of laws;
  • Conflicts of jurisdictions;
  • International circulation of enforceable titles: recognition and exequatur.
• Labor Law:
  • Labor relations: formation, execution, and termination of the employment contract;
  • Wages and working conditions;
  • Individual and collective labor disputes.

2. CIVIL PROCEDURE:

• Guiding principles of the trial and requirements of fair justice;
• Initiation of civil proceedings: conditions, methods, nature of actions;
• Conduct of civil proceedings:
  • Administration of evidence;
  • Outcome of civil proceedings: judicial decisions and their effects;
• Appeals;
• Execution of decisions: general principles, actors, procedures;
• Presidential jurisdictions;
• Procedure before the Court of First Instance (TPI);
• Procedure before the High Court (TGI);
• Procedure before traditional jurisdictions;
• Procedure before the Court of Appeal;
• Procedure before the Supreme Court.

b. BUSINESS LAW:

• Conflicts of community norms in business law (OHADA, CEMAC, UEAC, OAPI, CIMA, CIPRES);
• Conflicts of community jurisdictions;
• OHADA and its institutions;
• General commercial law: status of traders and entrepreneurs, commercial funds, professional leases, commercial intermediaries, commercial acts;
• Law of commercial companies and economic interest groups: typology, constitution, functioning, transformation, liability actions, and nullity regime;
• Law of special companies: banks, microfinance institutions, insurance companies, stock exchange companies, mixed economy companies, etc.;
• Law of cooperative companies: categories, constitution, functioning, liability actions, transformation;
• Law of securities: general regime, security agents, personal securities, real securities;
• Law of goods transport: general regime, land transport, air transport, maritime transport, multimodal transport;
• Simplified recovery procedures: payment injunctions, restitution injunctions, delivery injunctions;
• Enforcement procedures: authorities responsible for enforcement, conservatory seizures, movable seizures for enforcement, real estate seizures, distribution of seizure proceeds, enforcement disputes;
• Collective debt settlement procedures: general regime, judicial representatives, preventive procedures, judicial recovery, and liquidation of assets;
• Arbitration law: general regime, initiation and conduct of arbitration proceedings, arbitral awards, appeals, recognition, and exequatur of arbitral awards;
• Mediation law and other alternative dispute resolution methods in business;
• Consumer law;
• Competition law;
• Intellectual property law: general regime, industrial property rights, literary and artistic property rights, intellectual property disputes;
• Law of payment instruments;
• Investment law;
• Main business contracts: company contracts, professional leases, loan contracts, sales contracts, transport contracts, service provision contracts, employment contracts, enterprise contracts, subcontracting contracts, engineering and technology transfer contracts, leasing contracts, lease-management contracts, distribution contracts, franchise contracts, concession contracts, etc.

c. CRIMINAL LAW / CRIMINAL PROCEDURE:

• GENERAL CRIMINAL LAW:

• General principles;
• The offense: constituent elements, classifications, attempt, aggravating circumstances;
• Participation in the offense: co-action and complicity;
• Criminal liability: conditions, exemptions;
• Regime of criminal sanctions: nomenclature, purposes, determination, and execution of penalties;
• Mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences.

• SPECIAL CRIMINAL LAW:

• Main values protected by criminal law;
• Offenses contained in the Penal Code and other criminal laws;
• Sanction regime for different categories of offenses;
• Procedural particularities;
• Business criminal law;
• Environmental criminal law, etc.

• CRIMINAL PROCEDURE:

• Guiding principles of the criminal trial;
• Actors in the criminal trial;
• Police investigation;
• Judicial investigation;
• Public action;
• Civil action;
• Custody and provisional detention;
• Repressive jurisdictions and their competences;
• Judgment;
• Evidence regime;
• Appeals and the authority of res judicata;
• Execution of criminal decisions.

2. ADMINISTRATIVE SECTION:

a. ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND ADMINISTRATIVE LITIGATION:

• GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE LAW:

• Sources of administrative law;
• General principles of administrative law;
• Historical evolution of administrative law in Cameroon;
• Public legal entities;
• Administrative authorities: centralized, deconcentrated, decentralized;
• Regulatory power and administrative action;
• Public contracts and other administrative contracts: criteria, formation, execution, extinction;
• Administrative police;
• Public service;
• Management of administrative activities: direct management, concessions, public establishments, public enterprises, professional orders.

• ADMINISTRATIVE LITIGATION:

• Administrative justice in Cameroon: origin, evolution, organization, competences;
• Status of the administrative judge;
• Role of the judicial judge in administrative litigation;
• Grounds for administrative litigation;
• Procedure before the administrative jurisdiction: referral, case investigation, evidence administration, judgment, and appeals.

b. PUBLIC FREEDOMS:

• Foundations and historical evolution of public freedoms;
• Sources of public freedoms;
• Categories of public freedoms: fundamental, individual, collective;
• Public freedoms and human rights;
• Limitations on public freedoms;
• Institutions regulating public freedoms: Cameroon Human Rights Commission, National Communication Council, Telecommunications Regulatory Agency, etc.;
• Non-jurisdictional mechanisms for protecting public freedoms: political parties, associations, NGOs, etc.;
• Jurisdictional mechanisms for protecting public freedoms;
• Supranational mechanisms for protecting public freedoms (UN and African).

c. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW:

• Origin and historical evolution of constitutional law;
• National sovereignty and popular sovereignty;
• Political power;
• Political regimes: parliamentary, presidential, mixed;
• Constitutional democracy;
• The Constitution: origin, form, place, content, elaboration, revision, guarantees;
• The State: constituent elements, form, functions;
• Decentralized territorial communities;
• Separation and collaboration of powers;
• Constitutional justice: organization, functioning, competences;
• Constitutional litigation: grounds, referral, investigation, evidence regime, decisions, and appeals.

II- ORAL ADMISSION TESTS:

A. GRAND ORAL:
An interview with a jury aimed at assessing the candidate’s personality and suitability for serving the State and citizens.
Note: Emphasis will be placed on knowledge of judicial institutions in Cameroon, notably:

3. JUDICIAL ORGANIZATION:

• Traditional law jurisdictions;
• Courts of First Instance;
• High Courts;
• Military Courts;
• Administrative Courts;
• Regional Audit Courts;
• Courts of Appeal;
• Special Criminal Court;
• Supreme Court;
• High Court of Justice;
• State Security Court;
• Constitutional Council;
• Common Court of Justice and Arbitration.

4. PERSONNEL OF JUDICIAL SERVICES:

• Magistrates: statute of the magistracy;
• Higher Judicial Council (CSM);
• Clerks and prosecutors’ office personnel: statutes and functions.

5. AUXILIARIES OF JUSTICE:

• Bailiffs, enforcement agents, and auctioneers;
• Lawyers;
• Notaries;
• Judicial police officers;
• Assessors and interpreters;
• Judicial experts.

B. LANGUAGE ORAL:
An interview with a jury, in French for English-speaking candidates and in English for French-speaking candidates.

SERVICES OF THE PRIME MINISTER
VISA
000358 14 APR 2025
PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE