Book V: Enforcement procedures

No person may be handcuffed or shackled unless he or she is considered to be either dangerous to others or to himself or herself, or likely to attempt to abscond. In either case, all appropriate measures must be taken, in conditions compatible with security requirements, to prevent a handcuffed or shackled person from being photographed or the subject of an audiovisual recording.

I. – Where, by virtue of the provisions of the present code, notification to a lawyer is to be made by registered letter or by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, notification may also be made in the form of a fax with acknowledgement of receipt or by a consignment sent by a means of telecommunication to the lawyer’s electronic address and of which a written record is kept. II….

Any person who is brought before the investigating judge after being held in police custody or detained at the request of the public prosecutor or the sentence enforcement judge must appear the same day before this magistrate or, if an investigation is opened, before the investigating judge hearing the case. The same applies if the person is brought before the investigating judge following police custody in the course of a…

In case of necessity and notwithstanding the provisions of Article 803-2, the person may appear the following day and may be held for this purpose in specially equipped court premises, provided that this appearance takes place no later than twenty hours from the time at which police custody or detention was lifted, failing which the person concerned is immediately released. The magistrate before whom the person concerned is called to…

When a person prosecuted or convicted by the French courts is arrested outside national territory in application of the provisions on the European arrest warrant or extradition or in application of an international convention, he or she may declare to the competent foreign authorities that he or she is exercising the remedies provided for by this code, in particular by lodging an opposition, appeal or recourse against the decision against…

For the application of the right of a suspected or accused person, provided for by III of Preliminary Article, to an interpreter or a translation, the present article shall apply. If there is any doubt as to the ability of the suspected or accused person to understand the French language, the authority conducting the hearing or before which that person appears shall verify that the person speaks and understands that…

Any suspected or accused person subject to a measure involving deprivation of liberty pursuant to a provision of this Code shall, at the time of notification of such measure, be given a document setting out, in simple and accessible terms and in a language that he or she understands, the following rights, which he or she enjoys during the proceedings pursuant to this Code: 1° The right to be informed…

Where a court orders the immediate release of a person whose pre-trial detention is unlawful due to non-compliance with the time limits or formalities provided for in this Code, it may, in the same decision, place the person under judicial supervision if this measure is essential to ensure one of the objectives listed in Article 144. When, other than in the cases provided for in the first paragraph of this…

I.-Without prejudice to its right to apply to the administrative court pursuant to articles L. 521-1, L. 521-2 or L. 521-3 of the Code of Administrative Justice, any person detained in a prison in application of this Code who considers that the conditions of detention are contrary to human dignity may apply to the liberty and custody judge, if they are in pre-trial detention, or to the sentence enforcement judge,…