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Commissaire de Justice CI study plan

Commissaire de Justice CI · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Droit civil et procédure civile

  • Carte the architecture of the Code de procédure civile applicable in Côte d'Ivoire: identify the texts governing the matter before the jurisdictions, the place of the code in the hierarchy of norms and the articulation with the organisation judiciaire texts.

  • Distinguish the competence rules (d'ordre public vs. territoriale, exceptions de procédure, fins de non-recevoir) and produce a decision grid that assigns a hypothetical dispute to the correct jurisdiction.

  • Reconstruct the timeline of a civil instance from the assignation to the jugement: list each acte, its author, its deadline and its sanction in case of irregularity.

  • Build a personal lexicon of 40 procedural terms (conclusions, mise en état, radiation, clôture, exécution provisoire) with a one-line definition for each.

Your checkpoint

A 6-page synthesis sheet: a jurisdiction competence grid plus an annotated procedural timeline with deadlines and sanctions.

Week 2

Droit civil et procédure civile

  • Analyse the regime of the nullités de procédure and the principle that no nullity without grief; apply it to three concrete irregularity scenarios.

  • Compare the regimes of the jugement contradictoire, réputé contradictoire and par défaut, and state the appeal routes and deadlines attached to each.

  • Explain the effects of the chose jugée, the autorité de la chose jugée and the voies de recours extraordinaires (opposition, tierce opposition, recours en révision).

  • Draft a set of conclusions de première instance on a simple contested claim, respecting the formal requirements of the code.

Your checkpoint

A 2,500-word case note resolving a procedural irregularity scenario, plus one drafted set of conclusions.

Week 3

Voies d'exécution et procédures de recouvrement

  • Map the voies d'exécution available under Ivorian and OHADA law (saisie-vente, saisie-attribution, saisie immobilière, saisie des rémunérations) to their competent jurisdiction and the titre exécutoire each requires.

  • Trace the saisie-attribution from the commandement to the contestation, listing each deadline and the effects of the acte on the tiers détenteur.

  • Identify the causes of suspension and interruption of execution and the sanctions for abusive or premature seizure.

  • Draft a commandement aux fins de saisie-vente and a procès-verbal de saisie on a supplied fact pattern.

Your checkpoint

A comparative table of the four main saisies with deadlines and jurisdictions, plus two fully drafted execution acts.

Week 4

Voies d'exécution et procédures de recouvrement & Droit commercial, sûretés et procédures collectives

  • Explain the regime of the titre exécutoire and the conditions for obtaining an injonction de payer and a référé-provision as recovery shortcuts.

  • Summarise the OHADA uniform acts on sûretés: distinguish cautionnement, garantie autonome and hypothèque, and state their formal and registration requirements.

  • Outline the procedure collective (prévention, redressement, liquidation) and the role of the mandataire and the créancier déclarant.

  • Solve ten timed multiple-choice items mixing execution and sûretés, and log every error with its rule.

Your checkpoint

An error log of ten items with corrected rule statements, plus a one-page flowchart linking recovery route to the appropriate titre exécutoire.

Week 5

Droit pénal et procédure pénale & Droit administratif et procédure administrative

  • Reconstruct the phases of the procédure pénale (enquête, information judiciaire, jugement, voies de recours) and state the authority competent at each phase.

  • Distinguish the roles of the officier de police judiciaire, the ministère public and the juge d'instruction, and the limits of each power.

  • Classify the modes of saisine of the administrative judge and the conditions of recevabilité of the recours pour excès de pouvoir.

  • Compare the responsabilité administrative pour faute and sans faute, and apply the distinction to three short scenarios.

Your checkpoint

A two-column comparison sheet (pénal vs. administratif) covering authorities, deadlines and remedies, with three solved scenarios.

Week 6

Droit du travail et sécurité sociale & Droit foncier et régimes matrimoniaux

  • Explain the formation, execution and rupture of the contrat de travail under Ivorian law, including the licenciement procedure and its contestation before the labour jurisdiction.

  • Identify the employer's obligations toward the caisse de sécurité sociale and the consequences of non-declaration.

  • Distinguish the regimes matrimoniaux (communauté, séparation de biens, participation) and their effect on the liquidation of the conjugal estate.

  • Outline the rules of immatriculation foncière and the effects of the titre foncier on proof of ownership and on third parties.

Your checkpoint

A 3,000-word written answer to a cross-cutting case combining a licenciement dispute and a matrimonial liquidation.

Week 7

Organisation judiciaire, statut et déontologie des officiers publics & Techniques professionnelles : rédaction d'actes, tarification et comptabilité

  • State the conditions of access to the profession of commissaire de justice, the incompatibilities and the disciplinary regime, citing the governing texts.

  • Explain the duties of impartiality, confidentiality and probity, and apply them to three ethical dilemmas drawn from practice.

  • Draft an exploit de signification and a procès-verbal de constat respecting the mandatory mentions and the rules of redaction.

  • Reconstruct the tarification of a common act and the accounting obligations (compte client, maniement de fonds, conservation des pièces).

Your checkpoint

A portfolio of two drafted acts with a self-checked compliance checklist, plus a worked tarification and a client-account reconciliation exercise.

Week 8

Droit civil et procédure civile & Voies d'exécution et procédures de recouvrement & Techniques professionnelles : rédaction d'actes, tarification et comptabilité

  • Sit two full timed mock exams under exam conditions and score each domain separately to identify residual gaps.

  • Re-drill every item missed in weeks 4 to 7 and rewrite the underlying rule from memory.

  • Rehearse the redaction of an execution act under time constraint, checking mandatory mentions against the checklist built in week 7.

  • Consolidate a one-page per-domain revision sheet containing only the rules that were missed twice or more.

Your checkpoint

Two scored mock exams with a gap analysis and a final one-page-per-domain revision pack.

Milestones

Week 2: Can reproduce the procedural timeline and the nullity regime from memory, and score at least 70% on a 20-item procedural quiz.

Week 4: Can name the titre exécutoire required for each of the four main saisies and draft a compliant commandement without notes.

Week 6: Score at least 65% on a mixed 30-item set covering pénal, administratif, travail and foncier.

Week 8: Average of the two mock exams at or above the target pass mark, with no domain below 50%.