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Showing 461–470 of 65301 articles for “Art. L 255-1 to L 255-19”
The personal appearance shall take place in the presence of the defenders of all the parties or those called.
The judge may summon minors and protected adults subject to the rules relating to the capacity of persons and the taking of evidence, as well as their legal representatives or those assisting them.He…
Where provided for by law, public proceedings are extinguished by payment of a fixed fine set by law, which may not exceed the amount provided for in the first paragraph of Article 131-13 of the Penal…
…must be paid within forty-five days of the offence being recorded or, if the offence notice is sent to the person concerned at a later date, within forty-five days of it being sent, unless the person…
If, after application of the ceilings provided for in article 911-18, the appropriations allocated to the aid provided for in this sub-section have not been used up, a new calculation is made for the…
…person resides in a jurisdiction other than that of the court that handed down the sentence, the public prosecutor at that court shall directly send a copy of the decision(s) to the territorially comp…
When, as a result of sentence reductions granted by the sentence enforcement judge, the sentenced person has no remaining sentence to serve, the information provided for in the penultimate paragraph o…
If the sentenced person has already been remanded in custody, the sentence enforcement judge who receives a copy of the decision pursuant to article 723-15 examines the situation of the person concern…
The public prosecutor may apply the provisions of Article 723-15 and this sub-section for prison sentences with a remaining balance of more than one year if, as a result of the pre-trial detention ser…
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