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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Appeals to the Court of Cassation

Article 592

…by judges who did not attend all the hearings in the case. Where several hearings have been devoted to the same case, the judges who contributed to the decision are presumed to have attended all those…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Appeals to the Court of Cassation

Article 598

Where the sentence handed down is the same as that imposed by the law applicable to the offence, no one may seek to have the judgment set aside on the pretext that there has been an error in the citat…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Appeals to the Court of Cassation

Article 599

In correctional matters, the accused is not admissible to present as a means of cassation the nullities committed in first instance if he did not raise them before the court of appeal, with the except…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Appeals to the Court of Cassation

Article 597

The same action lies with the public prosecutor against the acquittal judgments mentioned in article 363 if the decision was made on the basis of the non-existence of a criminal law that would neverth…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Appeals to the Court of Cassation

Article 591

Rulings by the investigating chamber and final rulings and judgments handed down by the trial courts, when they are in the form prescribed by law, may only be quashed for breach of the law..

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Appeals to the Court of Cassation

Article 593

…do not contain reasons or if their reasons are insufficient and do not allow the Cour de cassation to exercise its review and to recognise whether the law has been complied with in the operative part…

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

Article 666

…forementioned grounds shall be served on the parties concerned at the instance of the Public Prosecutor at the Cour de cassation.

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

Article 664

When an accused person or defendant is being held in custody pursuant to a detention order or in execution of a conviction, the public prosecutor may, in the interests of the proper administration of…

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

Article 667-1

…patibilities provided for by law, the first president of the court of appeal may order the transfer to the adjoining court situated within the jurisdiction of that court and designated by the order pr…

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

Article 662

…n may relinquish jurisdiction of any investigating or trial court and refer the hearing of the case to another court of the same order on grounds of legitimate suspicion.The motion for referral may be…

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