In the case of a certified statement or memorandum, the stakeholder within one month of collection of the sum, or the assigning accountant, for the costs referred to in 2° and 3° of Articles R. 224-1 and R. 224-2, within one month of receipt of the request for payment, may submit a claim to the Public Prosecutor’s Office at the court whose clerk or designated official carried out the certification,…
The following are declared to be borne by the State in all cases and without recourse against convicted persons: 1° Costs and expenses incurred in the event of a court decision correcting or interpreting a previous decision; 2° Costs incurred before the commission provided for in Article 16-2.
A statement shall be drawn up for each criminal or police case, showing the liquidation of costs other than those borne by the State without recourse to the convicted persons. During the investigation, this statement is drawn up by the investigating clerk as and when the costs are incurred as stated in Article 81, paragraph 2. This liquidation must be inserted either in the order, or in the judgment, ruling…
The court clerk must submit to the departmental or, where applicable, regional director of public finance, as soon as the conviction has become final, an extract of the order, judgment or ruling, as regards the liquidation and the order to reimburse costs or a copy of the statement of liquidation made enforceable.
Le recouvrement des frais de justice avancés par le Trésor public qui ne restent pas définitivement à la charge de l’Etat est poursuivi à la diligence des comptables de la direction générale des finances publiques par toutes voies de droit et notamment celle de la contrainte judiciaire s’il y a lieu.
In criminal, correctional or police matters, the extracts are drawn up by the registry of the court whose decision has become final.
The compensation provided for by article 800-2 includes compensation for legal fees incurred by the person being prosecuted, the amount of which may not exceed the State’s contribution to the remuneration of the lawyer who would have assisted the person concerned under the legal aid scheme for the whole of the proceedings leading to the decision to dismiss, acquit or acquit. This compensation also includes, unless the person being prosecuted…
Compensation must be requested from the investigating or trial court before it rules on the public prosecution. The application shall be the subject of a request dated and signed by the applicant or his lawyer, addressed to the court either by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, or by delivery to the clerk’s office against receipt: 1° At the latest before the expiry of the twenty-day period provided for by…
The decision ruling on the claim for compensation is given by the court at the same time as the decision ruling on the public action, unless the state of the case does not allow the amount of the compensation to be determined. In criminal cases, this decision is given by the court ruling without the assistance of jurors.
Where the public prosecution has been initiated by the civil party, the investigating or trial court may only award compensation against the latter on the application of the public prosecutor and by a reasoned decision, if it considers that the civil party’s claim has been abusive or dilatory. The provisions of the second paragraph of Article 177-2 or the second paragraph of Article 392-1.
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