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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Judicial supervision, house arrest and pre-trial detention

Article 137-2

Judicial supervision is ordered by the investigating judge, who rules after hearing the public prosecutor's submissions. Judicial supervision may also be ordered by the liberty and custody judge, when…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 12: Appeals against orders of the investigating judge or the liberty and custody judge

Article 186-2

…all rule within four months of the date of the appeal declaration, failing which, if the person is detained, he or she shall be automatically released.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Letters rogatory

Article 154-2

…onsidering examining a person who has not already been heard as an assisted witness may request by letter rogatory, in accordance with the procedures set out in Article 151, any investigating judge to…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 4: Compensation for detention

Article 149-2

The First President of the Court of Appeal, on receipt of a petition within six months of the decision to dismiss the case, acquit or acquit having become final, shall give a reasoned decision. The pr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Settlement orders

Article 179-2

The investigating judge may specify in the committal order the date of the hearing before the police court or the criminal court when this date has been previously communicated to him by the public pr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 157-2

…ervices or organisations of the national police and the national gendarmerie, the list of which is set by joint order of the Minister of Justice and the Minister of the Interior. In this case, the hea…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 161-2

…port be filed beforehand, which shall be notified to the parties in accordance with the procedures set out in Article 167. The parties may then send their observations to the expert and the judge at t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Settlement orders

Article 177-2

…iod of twenty days from the date of communication to the civil party and his lawyer, by registered letter or by fax with receipt, of the public prosecutor's submissions, in order to allow the interest…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Supervision of the activities of officers and agents of the judicial police

Article 229-1

In the event of serious professional misconduct or a serious breach of honour or probity by one of the persons mentioned in article 224 affecting the person's ability to carry out judicial police duti…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Holding of meetings

Article 234-1

Where the chief town of the department in which the assizes are held is not the seat of a judicial court, the judicial court referred to in articles 242,251,261-1,262,263,265,266,270,271 and 289 is th…

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