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A special court cleared France’s justice minister of conflict of interest Wednesday, ruling he was not guilty of having used his office to settle personal scores, in the first such trial of a ...
Over seven weeks, the court heard how a 13-year-old schoolgirl's lie span out of control thanks to social media. Among those sentenced on Friday were Brahim Chnina, the schoolgirl's father.
Last week, in another closely watched trial seen as France’s first major #MeToo case, Christophe Ruggia, a little-known film director, was charged with isolating and repeatedly sexually ...
The trial took place in a specially constructed courtroom inside the Palais de Justice on the Île de la Cité, an island in the River Seine in central Paris.The temporary courtroom was designed to accommodate 500 people, on account of the large number of civil parties (French: parties civiles), including the bereaved and survivors of the attacks.
The Court of Appeal retries the facts of a disputed case previously tried in a court of first instance. This is known as the double degree of jurisdiction (double degré de juridiction). At the Court of Appeal level litigation is considered by a single court—although in separate divisions—whether the matter is civil or criminal.
The building of the Court of Cassation. The prosecution, or parquet général, is headed by the Chief Prosecutor (procureur général). [c] The Chief Prosecutor is a judicial officer, but does not prosecute cases; instead, his function is to advise the Court on how to proceed, analogous to the Commissioner-in-Council's [d] role within the Conseil d'État (lit.
PARIS (Reuters) -The Cour de Cassation, France's highest court, upheld on Wednesday former President Nicolas Sarkozy's conviction for corruption and influence peddling.
The Cour de Justice de la République (CJR, "Court of Justice of the Republic") is a special French court established to try cases of ministerial misconduct. Its remit only extends to government ministers (or former ministers) concerning offences committed in the exercise of their functions. [ 1 ]