Consultative commissions for the settlement of customary disputes

The present work bears the hallmarks of its originality, in that it has allowed us to reflect on a highly topical and rarely addressed issue, in this case, customary conflicts.In essence, the author addresses the immediate and distant underlying causes of the proliferation of customary conflicts in Gungu territory.Beyond the causes of these, the author returns to the unconstitutionality and illegality of decree 006/CAB/MIN/AFF.COUT/A5hmr/2017 of 01/07/2017 modifying and completing decree n° 004/MIN/AFF.COUT/2017 on the creation, composition, organization and functioning of the Commissions Consultatives de Règlement des Conflits Coutumiers, CCRCC in acronym, which sinned by conferring on inexperienced hands the latitude to hear customary land disputes, and therefore, to judge them, in defiance of the provisions of articles 10 and 110 of organic law n° 13/011-B of 11/04/2013 on the organization, functioning and competences of the jurisdictions of the judicial order.Innumerable causes have been identified which have thus led, alongside the conflict of jurisdiction with the Courts and Tribunals, to the proliferation of the said conflicts.

Autorentext

Léon PINDI MUSAMBA, licenciado em Direito pela Universidade de Kinshasa (1996-2003); juiz do Tribunal de Paz de Kutu (2013-2016); juiz do Tribunal de Paz de Kikwit (2016); presidente do Tribunal de Paz de Gungu (2016-2023) e presidente do Supremo Tribunal na qualidade de presidente do Tribunal de Paz de Gungu (2023-2024).