Ethiopia : Legal and Judicial Sector Assessment

The judicial and legal sector of Ethiopia presents a variety of significant challenges. The legal system as it exists today combines elements of both civil and common law1 with traditional practices, resulting in multiple layers intermingling and superimposing distinct types of modern, traditional, and religious laws and processes. This report provides an overview of Ethiopia's current legal system focusing on four key issues: judiciary, access to justice, commercial justice, and sequencing of reform efforts. Other issues are commented upon briefly to provide context and elucidate interconnections between issues. The report focuses mainly on the formal legal system as established by the 1995 Constitution.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2004
Subjects:	ACCESS TO JUSTICE, ACTS, ADJUDICATION, APPELLATE COURTS, ARBITRATION, CAPITAL CITIES, CENTRAL GOVERNMENT, CITIZENS, CIVIL SERVICE, CIVIL SOCIETY, COLONIES, COLONIZATION, COMMERCIAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION, COMMERCIAL LAW, COMMON LAW, COMPARATIVE LAW, CONSENSUS, CONSTITUTION, CONSTITUTIONS, COUNCIL OF MINISTERS, COUNCILS, COUNSEL, COURT ADMINISTRATION, COURT DECISIONS, COURT JUDGMENTS, COURTS, CRIME, CRIMES, CUSTOMARY COURTS, CUSTOMS, DECENTRALIZATION, DICTATORSHIP, DISPUTE RESOLUTION, DISTRICT COURTS, DISTRICTS, ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES, ENACTMENT, EQUALITY, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, FEDERAL POLICE, FEDERALISM, GENDER, HEAD OF STATE, HUMAN RIGHTS, INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY, JUDGES, JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION, JUDICIAL BODIES, JUDICIAL DECISIONS, JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE, JUDICIAL INSTITUTIONS, JUDICIAL POWERS, JUDICIAL REFORM, JUDICIAL REFORM PROGRAMS, JUDICIAL SECTOR, JUDICIAL SYSTEM, JUDICIAL SYSTEMS, JUDICIAL TRAINING, JUDICIARY, JURISDICTION, JUSTICE, KINGDOMS, KINGS, LAW REFORM, LAW SCHOOLS, LAW STUDENTS, LAWS, LEGAL AID, LEGAL AUTHORITY, LEGAL CODES, LEGAL EDUCATION, LEGAL FRAMEWORK, LEGAL INFORMATION, LEGAL INSTITUTIONS, LEGAL PROFESSION, LEGAL SECTOR, LEGAL SYSTEMS, LEGAL TRAINING, LEGISLATION, LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY, LEGISLATURE, LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT, MEDIATION, MEMBER STATES, MIDDLE EASTERN, NATIONS, PRECEDENTS, PRISONS, PRIVACY, REPRESENTATIVES, RULE OF LAW, RULINGS, SECESSION, SELECTION OF JUDGES, STATE COURTS, STATE LAW, STATE LAWS, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, SUPREME COURTS, UNDP, USAID, WOMEN LAWYERS,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/01/5561150/ethiopia-legal-judicial-sector-assessment https://hdl.handle.net/10986/14866
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