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Article 590-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

An applicant for judicial review who has not constituted a lawyer and has not lodged his statement of case within the time limit provided for in Article 584 shall forfeit his appeal.

The same applies, unless an exemption is granted by the President of the Criminal Division, to an applicant who has been convicted of a criminal offence and who has not instructed a lawyer and to the Public Prosecutor’s Office who have not sent their statement of case to the Registry of the Court of Cassation within the time limits laid down, respectively, in the first paragraph of Article 585-1 and in article 585-2.

An applicant sentenced to a penalty not provided for by law may not, however, forfeit his appeal.

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Article 590-1
Le demandeur en cassation qui n’a pas constitué avocat et n’a pas déposé son mémoire dans le délai prévu à l’article 584 est déchu de son pourvoi.


Il en est de même, sauf dérogation accordée par le président de la chambre criminelle, du demandeur condamné pénalement n’ayant pas constitué avocat et du ministère public qui n’ont pas fait parvenir leur mémoire au greffe de la Cour de cassation dans les délais prévus, respectivement, au premier alinéa de l’article 585-1 et à l’article 585-2.


Le demandeur condamné à une peine non prévue par la loi ne peut toutefois être déchu de son pourvoi.

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