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Article 388-4 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

In the event of prosecution by summons provided for in Article 390 or summons provided for in article 390-1, the parties’ lawyers may consult the case file at the registry of the judicial court as soon as the summons has been issued or no later than two months after the summons has been served.

At their request, the parties or their lawyer may be issued with copies of the documents in the case file. If the case file has been digitised, this copy shall be provided in digitised form, if necessary by a means of telecommunication in accordance with the procedures set out in Article 803-1. The copy is issued within one month of the request. However, in the event of a court summons and if the request is made less than one month after notification of the summons, the copy will be issued no later than two months after such notification. The issue of the first copy of each document in the file is free of charge.

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Article 388-4

En cas de poursuites par citation prévue à l’article 390 ou convocation prévue à l’article 390-1, les avocats des parties peuvent consulter le dossier de la procédure au greffe du tribunal judiciaire dès la délivrance de la citation ou au plus tard deux mois après la notification de la convocation.

A leur demande, les parties ou leur avocat peuvent se faire délivrer copie des pièces du dossier. Si le dossier a fait l’objet d’une numérisation, cette copie est remise sous forme numérisée, le cas échéant par un moyen de télécommunication selon les modalités prévues à l’article 803-1. La délivrance de cette copie intervient dans le mois qui suit la demande. Toutefois, en cas de convocation en justice et si la demande est faite moins d’un mois après la notification de cette convocation, cette délivrance intervient au plus tard deux mois après cette notification. La délivrance de la première copie de chaque pièce du dossier est gratuite.

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