French Code of civil procedure
In forceOn pain of forfeiture established by order of the First President or his delegate, the applicant for judicial review must, at the latest within four months from the date of the appeal, submit to the clerk's office of the Court of Cassation a brief containing the pleas in law relied on against the contested decision. The brief must, under the same penalty, be notified within the same time limit to the lawyers of the other parties or to the party who is not required to constitute a lawyer at the Conseil d'Etat and the Cour de cassation. If the defendant has not constituted a lawyer, the pleading must, under the same sanction, be served on him at the latest within one month of the expiry of that time limit; however, if, in the meantime, the defendant constitutes a lawyer before the pleading is served, his lawyer shall be notified.
On pain of inadmissibility, an additional appeal lodged in application of article 608 must be made by the mention "additional appeal" affixed to the statement of the grounds of appeal or by a separate statement bearing that mention, delivered and served on the other parties in the manner and within the time limits laid down in that article.
On pain of being declared inadmissible of its own motion a plea or an element of a plea must bring into play only one case of opening. Each plea or each element of a plea must specify, under the same sanction:
- the opening case relied upon;
- the part of the decision criticised;
- in what respect the decision incurs the alleged reproach.
