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Showing 1811–1820 of 69031 articles for “Art. 488 al. 1 and al. 2 and Art. 1998”
Expertise may also be requested from technical and scientific police services or organisations of the national police and the national gendarmerie, the list of which is set by joint order of the Minis…
If the period provided for in Article 161 exceeds one year, the investigating judge may request that a progress report be filed beforehand, which shall be notified to the parties in accordance with th…
…te may ask the expert to submit a provisional report before his final report. The public prosecutor and the parties then have a period set by the examining magistrate, which may not be less than fifte…
I. - The judge shall rule within twenty days on applications submitted to him pursuant to Articles 2 and 5 of the aforementioned Order. II. - The judge may not rule on these applications before the si…
…sisted witness may request by letter rogatory, in accordance with the procedures set out in Article 151, any investigating judge to proceed with the examination of that person in accordance with the p…
…ent criminal court. If the case is referred to the assize court, the time limits set out in article 181 are then applicable. If the case is referred to the departmental criminal court, the time limits…
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…
…he person under investigation, the complexity of the investigations required to ascertain the truth and the exercise of the rights of the defence. If, at the end of a period of two years from the open…
…asis of a civil party's claim, the investigating judge may, at the request of the public prosecutor and by reasoned decision, if he considers that the civil party's claim has been abusive or dilatory,…
…he 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 that in whose jurisdiction the assizes are held.
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