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Key Facts: Barreau du Sénégal Exam
Separate assessments
EFAS entrance and CAPA must not be conflated
Ordre entrance notice; UEMOA CAPA implementing text
English
An expressly listed CAPA oral subject
CAPA implementing regulation, Article 16
3 years
Normal effective professional stage, subject to the governing provisions
UEMOA professional regulation, Article 27; Bar rules
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1A former client's confidential information would materially assist a proposed new client in a related dispute. What should the lawyer do under the Senegalese Bar's conflict rules?
A.Accept because confidentiality ends when the original retainer ends.
B.Accept if the new client agrees to pay a higher fee.
C.Use the information only in oral argument so it does not enter the written file.
D.Decline the new engagement when it would risk misuse or disclosure of the former client's confidential information.
Explanation: The Bar's rules protect confidential information from previous matters and require refusal of an engagement that threatens that protection. Ending a retainer does not terminate professional secrecy.
2What is the purpose of placing client money in a CARPA sub-account under the Bar's rules?
A.To safeguard and account for money handled for clients separately from the lawyer's own funds.
B.To convert the recovery automatically into the lawyer's fee.
C.To make the client's funds available for the firm's routine payroll.
D.To replace every obligation to provide a client account.
Explanation: CARPA centralizes and safeguards funds received for clients, with controls over their origin and destination. Client-money handling remains distinct from the lawyer's own income and accounting obligations.
3Which fee arrangement presents the prohibited pacte de quota litis problem?
A.A disclosed hourly fee for professional work.
B.A fee consisting exclusively of an agreed share of the litigation result.
C.An agreed fixed fee for an identified service.
D.A written agreement distinguishing fees from reimbursable expenses.
Explanation: The professional rules prohibit a pacte de quota litis. That prohibition must be distinguished from ordinary agreed fees and a properly agreed supplementary result-related fee under the applicable rules.
4A lawyer appointed as counsel has a genuine reason preventing acceptance. What do the Bar's rules require?
A.Refuse without notifying the appointing authority.
B.Ask the accused alone to cancel the appointment.
C.Submit the reason for excuse or inability to the authority that made the appointment for approval.
D.Condition all assistance on receiving a private advance payment.
Explanation: The Bar requires compliance with appointments unless the appointing authority approves the stated excuse or impediment. Appointed assistance cannot simply be withheld until a private payment arrives.
5In a civil case introduced by assignation, which distinction should counsel explain to the client?
A.Service of the claim is the same as obtaining judgment.
B.A served defendant has necessarily admitted every allegation.
C.An assignation is itself an unrestricted enforcement authorization.
D.The assignation introduces and notifies the claim; the court still determines the dispute.
Explanation: An assignation is a procedural act that brings the defendant before the court and states the claim. It should not be described as proof that the claimant has already won.
6Under the UEMOA professional rule published by the Senegalese Bar, when does a lawyer's assistance begin in the preliminary criminal process?
A.From the client's interpellation, including preliminary investigation before police, gendarmerie, or parquet.
B.Only after the investigating judge has closed the investigation.
C.Only after a trial court has convicted the client.
D.Only when the police choose to request defence counsel.
Explanation: The regional rule provides for assistance from interpellation through the preliminary investigation. It does not postpone counsel's role until the judicial investigation or trial has ended.
7An opposing lawyer sends a letter expressly marked confidential during settlement discussions. What is the proper starting point under the Senegalese Bar's rules?
A.File it as evidence whenever it helps the client.
B.Respect its confidentiality and distinguish it from correspondence recording a definitive agreement under the applicable rules.
C.Treat the label as effective only if a judge added it.
D.Publish the letter after removing the sender's signature.
Explanation: The Bar's rules protect confidential correspondence between lawyers and distinguish correspondence recording a final agreement. Counsel must examine the applicable category rather than assume tactical usefulness permits production.
8Counsel receives decisive documents shortly before the hearing. Which approach best protects the adversarial process?
A.Keep them from the opponent until the judge has read them privately.
B.Use their late arrival as proof that no response is necessary.
C.Follow the applicable communication procedure and seek directions if the opponent needs a fair opportunity to respond.
D.Assume all late documents are automatically admissible without discussion.
Explanation: Document communication serves the opponent's opportunity to examine and discuss evidence. Timing difficulties should be addressed through the governing procedure and judicial directions, not by private surprise.
9A defendant argues that the claimant has no standing to bring the action. What should counsel distinguish from this issue?
A.Whether the claimant has the legally required interest or capacity to sue.
B.Whether a prerequisite for admitting the claim is absent.
C.Whether the procedural objection should be examined under the applicable admissibility rules.
D.Whether the evidence ultimately proves the substantive debt.
Explanation: Standing and admissibility concern whether the claim can be examined in the relevant procedural position. Proof that the substantive debt exists is a different question about the merits.
10A client seeks emergency protection while ownership remains disputed. What should counsel explain about référé relief?
A.The available provisional relief and its conditions must be distinguished from final determination of ownership.
B.Urgency alone conclusively proves the client's ownership.
C.A provisional order necessarily replaces every later merits proceeding.
D.The presence of a dispute excludes every form of temporary protection.
Explanation: Référé procedure concerns provisional judicial intervention under its governing conditions. Counsel must identify the particular relief and avoid promising that urgency resolves the underlying ownership dispute.
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