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Article L812-5-1 of the French Commercial code

The judicial representative may exercise his profession as an employee of a natural or legal person registered on the list provided for in Article L. 812-2.

A natural person registered on this list may not employ more than two salaried judicial representatives. A legal entity registered on the said list may not employ more than twice the number of salaried judicial representatives than the number of associated judicial representatives practising there.

The employment contract of the salaried judicial representative may not infringe the ethical rules of the profession of judicial representative. Notwithstanding any clause in the employment contract, an employee judicial representative may refuse to accept an act from his employer or to carry out an assignment where such act or assignment appears to him to be contrary to his conscience or likely to affect his independence. Any non-competition clause is deemed unwritten.

A salaried judicial representative may not hold a personal mandate.

This Book shall apply to the mandataire judiciaire salarié, unless otherwise provided.

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Article L812-5-1

Le mandataire judiciaire peut exercer sa profession en qualité de salarié d’une personne physique ou morale inscrite sur la liste prévue à l’article L. 812-2.


Une personne physique inscrite sur cette liste ne peut pas employer plus de deux mandataires judiciaires salariés. Une personne morale inscrite sur ladite liste ne peut pas employer un nombre de mandataires judiciaires salariés supérieur au double de celui des mandataires judiciaires associés qui y exercent la profession.


Le contrat de travail du mandataire judiciaire salarié ne peut porter atteinte aux règles déontologiques de la profession de mandataire judiciaire. Nonobstant toute clause du contrat de travail, le mandataire judiciaire salarié peut refuser à son employeur de recevoir un acte ou d’accomplir une mission lorsque cet acte ou cette mission lui paraissent contraires à sa conscience ou susceptibles de porter atteinte à son indépendance. Toute clause de non-concurrence est réputée non écrite.


Le mandataire judiciaire salarié ne peut avoir de mandat à titre personnel.


Le présent livre est applicable au mandataire judiciaire salarié, sauf disposition contraire.

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