The parties are obliged to cooperate with the investigative measures without prejudice to the judge drawing any consequences from an abstention or refusal. If a party holds evidence, the judge may, at the request of the other party, enjoin him to produce it, if necessary under penalty of a fine. He may, at the request of one of the parties, request or order, if necessary under the same penalty, the…
The judge shall decide the dispute in accordance with the rules of law applicable to it. He must give or restore their exact characterisation to the facts and acts in dispute without stopping at the name that the parties would have proposed. However, he may not change the name or the legal basis where the parties, by virtue of an express agreement and for the rights of which they have…
The judge may invite the parties to provide such explanations of law as he considers necessary for the resolution of the dispute.
No party may be tried without having been heard or called.
The parties must make known to each other in good time the grounds of fact on which they base their claims, the evidence they produce and the pleas in law they rely on, so that each is in a position to organise its defence.
The judge must, in all circumstances, observe and observe himself the principle of contradiction. He may not retain, in his decision, the pleas, explanations and documents put forward or produced by the parties unless they have been able to debate them in adversarial proceedings. He may not base his decision on the pleas of law that he has raised of his own motion without first inviting the parties to present…
Where the law permits or necessity dictates that a measure be ordered without the knowledge of a party, that party shall have an appropriate remedy against the decision which adversely affects him.
The parties may defend themselves, subject to cases in which representation is compulsory.
The parties shall freely choose their defence counsel either to be represented or to be assisted as permitted or ordered by law.
The judge may always hear the parties themselves.
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