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Showing 51–60 of 58910 articles for “Art. Cass. crim. 6-1-2021”
The arrival of the public prosecutor at the scene relieves the judicial police officer.The public prosecutor then performs all the judicial police acts provided for in this chapter.He may also instruc…
I.-Only a judicial police officer may, ex officio or on the instructions of the public prosecutor, place a person in police custody. As soon as the measure begins, the judicial police officer informs…
The minutes drawn up by the judicial police officer pursuant to
If the needs of the investigation so require, the Public Prosecutor or the Examining Magistrate, when proceeding as described in this chapter, may travel to the jurisdictions of the courts bordering t…
If it is necessary to carry out technical or scientific findings or examinations, the judicial police officer or, under the latter's control, the judicial police officer or the investigation assistant…
People against whom there is no plausible reason to suspect that they have committed or attempted to commit an offence shall be heard by the investigators without being subjected to a measure of restr…
The courts referred to in article 697 shall hear crimes and misdemeanours committed on the territory of the Republic by military personnel in the performance of their duties. These courts have jurisdi…
When the European Public Prosecutor decides to refer the case to the national authorities pursuant to Article 34 of the aforementioned Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 of 12 October 2017, the Deputy…
By decision of the Chairman of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, the sums entered in an automatic account may be carried over to another automatic account exclusively in the event of…
The surety may set off what the creditor owes to the principal debtor. A joint and several debtor may rely on set-off of what the creditor owes to one of his co-obligors to have the latter's divided s…
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