SECTION 478

(1) The time-limit for appeal to the Supreme Court against a judgment on the merits shall be ten (10) days. It shall be seven (7) days for interlocutory rulings referred to in section 473. (2) The time-limits for appeal to the Supreme Court shall begin to run from the day following the date on which the judgment was delivered, if such judgment is deemed to have been delivered after full hearing. Courtesy of the Cameroon Center for Demoncracy and Human Rights – CCDHR: www.ccdhr.org 109 However, such time-limits shall only being to run from the day following the date of service of the decision in the following cases: (a) where a party after a full hearing was neither present nor represented in court on the day the judgment was delivered and where it is not evident from the judgment that the Presiding Judge after having adjourned the hearing for deliberation, had expressly informed the parties of the date on which the judgment was to be delivered; (b) where the accused had applied to be tried in absence as provided for in section 350 (1). (3) The time-limit for appeal against a judgment in default shall be thirty (30) days. This period shall, in respect of the appellant, run as from the day following the date of expiry of the time- limit for applying to have the judgment set aside.