Chapter I: Litigation procedure.

The statement of appeal shall be made by a document, which may include an appendix, containing, in addition to the particulars prescribed by 2° and 3° of Article 54 and by the fifth paragraph of article 57, and on pain of nullity : 1° The constitution of the appellant’s lawyer; 2° An indication of the contested decision; 3° An indication of the court before which the appeal is brought; 4°…

The Registrar shall forthwith send to each of the respondents, by ordinary letter, a copy of the statement of appeal with an indication of the obligation to constitute a lawyer. In the event of the return to the Registry of the letter of notification or where the respondent has not constituted a lawyer within one month of the dispatch of the letter of notification, the Registrar shall notify the appellant’s…

As soon as it is constituted, the respondent’s lawyer informs the appellant’s lawyer and submits a copy of the document of constitution to the court registry.

The First President shall designate the chamber to which the case shall be distributed. The clerk’s office shall notify the lawyers constituted.

The president of the chamber to which the case has been distributed decides on its direction, either by setting a date for the case to be appealed shortly, or by appointing a Conseiller de la mise en status. The clerk’s office notifies the lawyers who have been constituted.

The president of the chamber seised, of his own motion or at the request of a party, shall fix the days and times on which the case will be called at short notice on the day indicated, where the appeal: 1° Appears to be of an urgent nature or to be in a fit state to be heard; 2° Relates to an order for interim relief; 3° Relates to a…

Where the case is set at short notice by the president of the chamber, the appellant shall serve the statement of appeal within ten days of receipt of the notice of setting which is sent to him by the clerk’s office, failing which the statement of appeal shall lapse, raised ex officio by the president of the chamber or the magistrate designated by the first president; however, if, in the…

On pain of the declaration of appeal lapsing, raised ex officio by order of the president of the chamber seised or of the magistrate designated by the first president, the appellant shall have a period of one month from receipt of the notice of the setting of the case for a short period in which to submit his submissions to the registry. The respondent shall have, on pain of inadmissibility…