Article 12-1
The public prosecutor and the examining magistrate are free to choose the panels to which the judicial police officers belong.
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The public prosecutor and the examining magistrate are free to choose the panels to which the judicial police officers belong.
Where the person under investigation or the assisted witness is implicated by several persons, they may request, in accordance with the first paragraph of
Investigating and sentencing courts may, as an alternative measure to pre-trial detention, impose house arrest with electronic surveillance in the cases provided for by articles 135-2, 145, 148, 201,…
In order to gather evidence and identify the perpetrators, by establishing links between individuals, events or offences, of crimes and misdemeanours of a serial nature, the national police and gendar…
The statement of appeal must be made at the registry of the assize court which handed down the contested decision.It must be signed by the registrar and by the appellant himself, by a lawyer, or by a…
…there is new information, refer the matter to the criminal court in accordance with one of the procedures set out in Article 388 or requests that an investigation be opened. When the person had been r…
Without prejudice to the provisions of Article L. 133-1, the provisions of this section apply to payment transactions carried out in euros and to payment transactions involving a single conversion bet…
A person who signs a cheque as the representative of a person for whom he had no authority to act is himself obligated under the cheque and, if he has paid, has the same rights as the purported princi…
Any person who disseminates or retains information obtained pursuant to article L. 131-86 shall be liable to the penalties provided for in article 226-21 of the French Criminal Code.
…rities are governed by the provisions of the legislative part of the Code of Civil Enforcement Procedures.
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