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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VI: Transfers from one court to another

Article 665

…r of a case from one court to another may be ordered on grounds of public security by the criminal division, but only at the request of the public prosecutor at the Court of Cassation. Referral may al…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VI: Transfers from one court to another

Article 665-1

Referral may also be ordered by the Criminal Division if the court normally having jurisdiction cannot be legally composed or if the course of justice is otherwise interrupted. The motion for referral…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VI: Transfers from one court to another

Article 667

A judgment which has dismissed an application for committal on grounds of public safety, on the grounds set out in the first paragraph of Article 665-1, on the grounds of legitimate suspicion or in th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VI: Transfers from one court to another

Article 663

Where two investigating judges, belonging to the same court or to different courts, are simultaneously seised of related offences or different offences in respect of which the same person or the same…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIII: The use of telecommunications during proceedings

Article 706-71-1

…ion is possible only with the person's agreement, the latter shall make known his agreement within five days of being informed of the date of the hearing and the fact that the use of such means is env…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIII: The use of telecommunications during proceedings

Article 706-71

…ual means of telecommunication are applicable before the trial court for the hearing of witnesses, civil parties and experts. They are also applicable, with the agreement of the public prosecutor and…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Common provisions

Article 706-143

…Seized and Confiscated Assets so that this agency may carry out, within the limits of the mandate given to it, all legal and material acts necessary for the conservation, maintenance and enhancement…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Common provisions

Article 706-145

…is released or the seized property is confiscated, the criminal seizure suspends or prohibits all civil enforcement proceedings against the property that is the subject of the criminal seizure. For t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Common provisions

Article 706-142

The public prosecutor, the investigating judge or, with their authorisation, the judicial police officer may request the assistance of any qualified person to carry out the acts necessary for the seiz…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Common provisions

Article 706-146

…aim may be authorised, under the conditions provided for in Article 706-144, to initiate or resume civil enforcement proceedings against the property, in accordance with the rules applicable to such p…

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