Abstract

A fair trial presupposes, among other things, that the judgment is pronounced by a court and/or an independent and impartial judge. In any state based on the idea of the rule of law, justice must be organized in such a way as to be stripped of any risk of serious grievance affecting its neutrality or that of the judges. It is on objective bases that the assignment of a court or a judge to a case must be made. The litigant must have for judge the one whom the law alone has established, his natural judge. Their meeting should not result from manipulation or a particular arrangement, but result from the implementation of criteria specially predefined by the legislator, taking into account the equality of citizens before the law and justice. These principles are indeed in force in Cameroonian law, although mistreated in their implementation.