Subtitle I: Proceedings before the panel.

The submissions shall be served and the exhibits communicated simultaneously by each party’s lawyer to the other party’s lawyer; in the case of multiple plaintiffs or defendants, they must be served on all the lawyers constituted. Copies of the submissions shall be submitted to the court registry with proof of service. Documents communicated and filed in support of inadmissible submissions shall themselves be inadmissible.

Unless Article 905, the case shall be heard under the supervision of a judge of the Chamber to which it is assigned, under the conditions laid down in Articles 780 to 807 and subject to the following provisions.

On pain of the declaration of appeal lapsing, raised ex officio, the appellant has a period of three months from the declaration of appeal to submit his submissions to the clerk’s office. .

The respondent shall have, on pain of inadmissibility raised ex officio, a period of three months from the notification of the appellant’s pleadings provided for in article 908 to deliver his pleadings to the registry and to lodge, where appropriate, a cross-appeal or an induced appeal. .

The respondent to a cross-appeal or to an appeal in cassation shall have a period of three months from the date on which he is notified of the application to intervene, failing which he shall be deemed inadmissible. The intervener in the appeal proceedings shall have a period of three months from the date on which he is notified of the application to intervene, failing which he shall be deemed…

The submissions required by articles 905-2 and 908 to 910 are those, addressed to the court, which are delivered to the registry and notified within the time limits provided for by these texts and which determine the subject matter of the dispute.

The decision ordering the parties to meet with a mediator pursuant to article 127-1 or who orders mediation pursuant to article 131-1 interrupts the time limits for concluding and cross-appealing mentioned in articles 905-2 and 908 to 910. The interruption has effect until the expiry of the mediator’s term of office. .

In the event of force majeure, the President of the Chamber or the Conseiller de la mise en état may waive the application of the sanctions provided for in Articles 905-2 and 908 to 911.

On pain of inadmissibility, raised ex officio, the parties must submit, as early as the submissions mentioned in articles 905-2 and 908 to 910, all their claims on the merits. Inadmissibility may also be invoked by the party against whom subsequent claims are made. Nonetheless, and without prejudice to paragraph 2 of Article 802, within the limits of the heads of the judgment criticised, claims intended to reply to the…

Subject to the penalties provided for in articles 905-2 and 908 to 910, the pleadings are notified to the parties’ lawyers within the time limit for their delivery to the court registry. Subject to the same sanctions, they shall be served at the latest within one month of the expiry of the time limits provided for in those articles on the parties who have not constituted a lawyer; however, if,…