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Showing 24612470 of 14512 articles for Art. CE 25-7-1986 n° 41921

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Recognition of judicial review decisions

Article 696-75

…correspond to the measures provided for under French law, the liberty and custody judge shall replace the measure ordered with the measure that best corresponds to the measure ordered and that could…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Recognition of judicial review decisions

Article 696-79

…stody judge taken pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 696-70 is subject to appeal in accordance with the procedures set out in Articles 185 and 186. The appeal does not challenge the principle…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of specialised inter-regional courts in economic and financial matters

Article 704-3

…if this is not the case, to the criminal chamber of the Cour de cassation. Within eight days of receiving the file, the Investigating Chamber or the Criminal Division appoints the investigating judg…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Recognition of judicial review decisions

Article 696-71

…ther State may be refused only in the cases provided for in Articles 696-73 and 696-74. In the absence of one of the grounds for refusal provided for in the same articles 696-73 and 696-74, the libert…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Procedure

Article 698-7

…visions of Article 698-6 are applicable, for the trial of ordinary crimes committed in the performance of service by military personnel, only if there is a risk of disclosure of a national defence sec…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of specialised inter-regional courts in economic and financial matters

Article 704-1

For the prosecution, investigation and, in the case of misdemeanours, trial of the offences provided for in Article 704 and related offences, the public prosecutor, the investigating judge and the spe…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XII: Applications for relief from prohibitions, disqualifications, incapacities or publication measures

Article 702-1

…ty or to a publication measure of any kind resulting ipso jure from a criminal conviction or pronounced in the judgment of conviction as an additional penalty may apply to the court that pronounced th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XIV: Recourse for compensation available to certain victims of damage resulting from an offence

Article 706-6

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Procedure

Article 706-24

Officers and agents of the judicial police, assigned to the judicial police services specially responsible for combating terrorism, may be authorised by name by the public prosecutor at the Paris cour…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XVII: Prosecution, investigation and judgment of offences relating to trafficking in human beings, procuring or the use of prostitution of minors

Article 706-37

…the facts referred to in 2° of article 225-10 of the Penal Code and shall have the initiation of proceedings and the decision taken recorded in the commercial register and in the registers in which th…

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