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Showing 1261–1270 of 47238 articles for “Art. Cass. ass. plén. 3-5-1956”
An appeal against police judgments shall be lodged with the Court of Appeal. This appeal is lodged within the time limits set out in articles 498 to 500. The appeal is heard and decided in the same wa…
The pleadings shall contain the grounds of cassation and refer to the legal texts whose infringement is alleged. They are drawn up on a stamp, unless the applicant is a person sentenced to a criminal…
The court clerk shall notify the president of the court or the first president of the court of appeal of the filing of the application. The judgment or ruling is not enforceable and no decision may be…
Judgments of acquittal handed down by the assize court may be appealed only in the interests of the law, and without prejudice to the acquitted party.
A writ of summons may only be declared null and void where it has had the effect of prejudicing the interests of the person whom it concerns, subject, as regards time limits for summons, to the provis…
The decision of the investigating chamber to refer the accused to the criminal court or police court may only be challenged before the Cour de cassation where it rules, of its own motion or on a plea…
Such decisions shall be declared null and void where they are not given by the prescribed number of judges or where they have been given by judges who did not attend all the hearings in the case. Wher…
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…
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…
The provisions of articles 400 to 405,406 to 408, are applicable to proceedings before the police court. However, the penalties provided for by Article 404, paragraph 2, may only be ordered by the cri…
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