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The Court of Cassation (French: Cour de cassation [kuʁ də kasɑsjɔ̃] ⓘ) is the supreme court for civil and criminal cases in France. It is one of the country's four apex courts, along with the Council of State, the Constitutional Council and the Jurisdictional Disputes Tribunal.
By Makini Brice and Juliette Jabkhiro. PARIS (Reuters) -The Cour de Cassation, France's highest court, upheld on Wednesday former President Nicolas Sarkozy's conviction for corruption and ...
A court of cassation is a high-instance court that exists in some judicial systems. Courts of cassation do not re-examine the facts of a case; they only interpret the relevant law. Courts of cassation do not re-examine the facts of a case; they only interpret the relevant law.
The Supreme Court of Haiti (French: Cour de Cassation, pronounced [kuʁ də kasɑsjɔ̃] ⓘ; Haitian Creole: Lakou kasasyon an Ayiti) is the highest court in the Haitian legal system. The Supreme Court building is located in Port-au-Prince.
The Palais de Justice (French pronunciation: [palɛ də ʒystis]; '"Palace of Justice"), is a judicial center and courthouse in Paris, located on the Île de la Cité.It contains the Court of Appeal of Paris, the busiest appellate court in France, and France's highest court for ordinary cases, the Court of Cassation.
The next higher court would be cassation. Here the bench sometimes quashes a verdict without returning it to the lower court, or where a lower court may bow to the Cour de cassation by rendering a judgment that takes the cassation court's ruling into account. Unlike the Courts of Appeal, there is only one Cour de cassation, which sits in Paris.
Société Plon et autres v. Pierre Hugo et autres, 04–15.543 Arrêt n° 125 (Jan. 30, 2007), is a decision by the First Civil Chamber of the Cour de Cassation (the high court in France) which ruled that François Cérésa's adaptations/sequels of Les Misérables do not per se violate the droit moral of its author Victor Hugo and his estate. [1]
The Court of Cassation (cour de cassation) is the highest level of appeal in France. [7] These courts sit in six chambers with fifteen judges in each; however, only seven judges need to be present to hear a case. [8] [5] There are more than 120 judges serving in the court. [5]