Chapter I: The institution and its missions

The court clerk assists the judges of the commercial court at hearings and in all cases provided for by law. He assists the president of the commercial court in all administrative tasks specific to him. He provides his secretarial services. He assists him in drawing up and applying the court’s rules of procedure, in organising court dockets and allocating judges, in preparing the budget and managing the appropriations allocated to…

The court clerk, under the authority of the president of the court and the supervision of the public prosecutor, directs all the services of the registry. He keeps the various registers provided for by the texts in force and keeps the court files up to date. He puts into form the decisions taken and reasoned by the judges. He is custodian of the minutes and archives which he ensures are…

The court clerk is responsible for maintaining the general directory of the court’s cases. He applies the instructions for maintaining the general directory drawn up by the Ministry of Justice. He transmits the statistical information requested by the Minister of Justice in accordance with the procedures determined by the latter. .

Copies issued by registrars relating to entries made in the legal publicity registers for which they are responsible may be disseminated electronically under the conditions set out in this article: a) The information is disseminated directly by the competent registry. However, the registrars may join together within a group having either one of the forms authorised by Article L. 743-12, or an associative form. This group is responsible for centralising…

The costumes of chief clerks and registrars are defined as follows: a) Registrar: same costume as consular judges, without braid on the toque; b) Sworn clerk: black dress without simarre and black toque.

The commercial court clerk invested with a delegation mandate in accordance with the second paragraph of Article 27 of Order no. 2022-544 of 13 April 2022 relating to the ethics and discipline of ministerial officers: 1° Must not have been the perpetrator of acts contrary to honour and probity; 2° Refrains from exercising the delegated powers when the exercise of these powers has a link with: -the court registry at…