Therefore both English law and Sharia are administered contemporaneously. The latter however, is restricted to matters like Marriage, Divorce, and Inheritance, which for the purposes of this report are the main areas of controversy vis a vis the enhancement of the status of the Gambian woman.
Les deux droits fonctionnent donc simultanément; toutefois, la charia est limitée aux domaines du mariage, du divorce et de la succession, questions qui, aux fins de ce rapport, posent le plus de problèmes en ce qui concerne les progrès de la condition de la femme en Gambie.