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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Reduction of sentences

Article 721-1-1

Persons sentenced to a custodial sentence for one or more of the offences mentioned in articles 421-1 to 421-6 of the Penal Code, excluding those defined in articles 421-2-5 to 421-2-5-2 of the same c…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Security measures that may be ordered in the event of a declaration of lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder or in the event of recognition of impairment of judgement

Article 706-136-1

When a person convicted in the circumstances mentioned in the second paragraph of Article 122-1 of the Penal Code has not been sentenced to socio-judicial supervision, the sentence enforcement judge m…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XIV bis: Assistance with the recovery of damages for victims of offences

Article 706-15-1

Any natural person who, having brought a civil action, has benefited from a final decision awarding damages and interest as compensation for the harm they have suffered as a result of a criminal offen…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Execution of the international letter rogatory by the judicial court

Article 740

The parties and their defenders, even if they are foreigners, may, with the judge's permission, ask questions; these must be formulated or translated into French; the same applies to the answers given…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Execution of the international letter rogatory by the judicial court

Article 741

…form the assigning court, at its request, of the place, day and time at which the execution of the letter rogatory will take place; the foreign assigning judge may attend..

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Execution of the international letter rogatory by the judicial court

Article 746

The decision by which the judge refuses to execute a letter rogatory, cancels the acts recording its execution, reports the measures he has taken or refuses to report them must state the reasons.The p…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Execution of the international letter rogatory by the judicial court

Article 743

…igned may refuse, of his own motion or at the request of any interested person, the execution of a letter rogatory if he considers that it does not fall within his powers. He must refuse it if it is l…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Execution of the international letter rogatory by the judicial court

Article 745

If the letter rogatory has been transmitted irregularly, the judge assigned may of his own motion or at the request of the public prosecutor refuse to execute it; he may also, at the request of the pu…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Execution of the international letter rogatory by the judicial court

Article 744

…lic prosecutor must ensure compliance with the guiding principles of the trial in the execution of letters rogatory.In the event of a breach of these principles, the public prosecutor or the intereste…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Execution of the international letter rogatory by the judicial court

Article 736

The Minister of Justice shall transmit letters rogatory addressed to him to the Public Prosecutor's Office at the competent judicial court.The Minister of Justice shall transmit letters rogatory addre…

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