Book III: Extraordinary remedies

When an application for review is referred to the committee investigating applications for review and reconsideration pursuant to Article 622, it shall take into account all new facts or unknown elements on which one or more applications previously submitted may have been based and shall refer to the judgment formation of the Court of Revision and Reconsideration applications for which it considers that a new fact has occurred or that…

If the bench of the Court of Revision and Reconsideration considers that the case is not ready for hearing, it shall order that additional information be provided by one or more of its members for the purpose of carrying out, directly or by means of a letter rogatory, in the manner provided for in this Code, any act of information that may be useful in examining the application, with the…

For the purposes of this Title, the applicant shall be represented in the proceedings and assisted during the hearings by a lawyer chosen by him or, at his request, appointed by the court. If the application for review or reconsideration has not been declared manifestly inadmissible pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 624 and the applicant does not have a lawyer, the chairman of the investigating committee shall appoint…

Applicants may, during the examination of their application, submit a written, reasoned request to the Commission d’instruction des demandes en révision et en réexamen (Revision and Reconsideration Applications Examination Commission) for any action that they deem necessary to examine their application. The commission shall rule on the request, in a reasoned decision that is not subject to appeal, within three months of receipt of the request.

The claimant and the civil party may request a copy of all or part of the documents and records 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 first copy of each document in the file is issued free of charge. This…