Title Va: The priority constitutionality question

The president of the panel to which the case is distributed or his delegate, at the request of one of the parties or of his own motion, may, in urgent cases, reduce the time limit provided for in the articles 126-9 and 126-10. It shall set the date for the hearing at which the priority question of constitutionality will be examined. The Attorney General is notified so that he can…

The Cour de cassation is not obliged to refer to the Conseil constitutionnel a priority question of constitutionality challenging, on the same grounds, a legislative provision already before the Conseil constitutionnel. If no referral is made for this reason, it shall defer its decision until the Constitutional Council’s decision has been made.

The clerk’s office shall notify the parties of the decision taken by the chairman of the panel or his delegate pursuant to the first paragraph of article 126-11, as well as the date of the hearing.