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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article D15-7

The copy of the documents in the investigation file provided for by article 81 may be made in digital format. It shall be stored in such a way as to ensure that it is only accessible to persons author…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article D28

The president of the court, having received the opening indictment and the attachments in the case of new information, forwards the file together with his decision to the designated investigating judg…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article D31-2

Where the investigating judge relinquishes jurisdiction pursuant to the last paragraph of Article 118, he shall immediately inform the president of the judicial court in which the investigating divisi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article D31-1

For the application of the provisions of the third paragraph of Article 83-1, where the investigation has been opened in a court where there is no investigating division, the examining magistrate who…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXVIII : Proceedings and decisions on lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder

Article D47-28-2

…peal by the accused or the civil party against the decision on the civil action made pursuant to 3° of Article 706-125 shall be brought before the Criminal Appeals Chamber of the Court of Appeal.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXVIII : Proceedings and decisions on lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder

Article D47-28

…icle 706-120 when the person under investigation has been involuntarily hospitalised, the president of that court shall request from the director of the host establishment the transmission of a detail…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXVIII : Proceedings and decisions on lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder

Article D47-27

If the mental disorder of a person under investigation and remanded in custody requires care and compromises the safety of individuals or seriously undermines public order, the public prosecutor, in a…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXVIII : Proceedings and decisions on lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder

Article D47-28-1

During the hearing of the Investigating Chamber provided for by Article 706-122, experts and witnesses may be heard using a means of telecommunication, in accordance with the provisions of l'article 7…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XII: General provisions

Article D594

The procedures for exercising the right of suspected or accused persons to the assistance of an interpreter and to the translation of documents essential to the exercise of their defence provided for…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: The Autorité des marchés financiers

Article L785-9

I.-Subject to the adaptations provided for in II, the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the wording indicated in the ri…

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