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Showing 34513460 of 55426 articles for Art. Loi 2023-1059 of 20 November 2023 – justice programming law

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Pre-trial detention

Article 148-1

…n any case by any person under investigation, any defendant or any accused person, and at any stage of the proceedings.When a trial court is seised, it is responsible for ruling on pre-trial detention…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Pre-trial detention

Article 148-4

After a period of four months has elapsed since the last appearance before the examining magistrate or the magistrate delegated by the examining magistrate, and as long as the settlement order has not…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Pre-trial detention

Article 148-6

Any application for the release or modification of judicial supervision or for release must be declared to the registrar of the investigating court hearing the case or to the registrar of the court wi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Letters rogatory

Article 152

The magistrates or judicial police officers assigned to carry out the investigation exercise, within the limits of the letter rogatory, all the powers of the investigating judge. However, the judicial…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Letters rogatory

Article 154

The provisions of articles 61-1 and 61-2 relating to the hearing of a suspected person or a victim as well as Articles 61-3 and 62-2 to 64-1 are applicable during the execution of letters rogatory. Th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 156

Any investigating or trial court, where a technical question arises, may, either at the request of the public prosecutor or of its own motion, or at the request of the parties, order an expert report.…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 166

…aisal operations have been completed, the experts draw up a report which must contain a description of the said operations and their conclusions. The experts shall sign their report and mention the na…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 10: Invalidity of information

Article 170-1

Where the outcome of an application for annulment appears to be manifestly necessary, the President of the Examining Magistrates' Chamber shall rule on this application, in accordance with the provisi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Settlement orders

Article 180

In cases of referral, either to the police court or the criminal court, the investigating judge forwards the case file with his order to the public prosecutor. The latter is required to send it withou…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 12: Appeals against orders of the investigating judge or the liberty and custody judge

Article 187-3

In the case provided for in the second paragraph of article 148-1-1, the public prosecutor who appeals against an order for release that is contrary to his or her recommendations within four hours of…

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