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Chapter IV: Payment and recovery of costs

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Article R222 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 6, 2023

Stakeholders shall draw up and send their statements and bills of costs, together with supporting documents, in electronic form. To this end, they shall use the teleservice designated by the Minister of Justice. One statement or statement of expenses is drawn up for each assignment. However, stakeholders who habitually carry out several missions per month shall draw up a statement or statement of expenses summarising all the missions carried out…

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Article R223 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 6, 2023

The court with jurisdiction to deal with the statement or memorandum of legal costs is the court that prescribed the measure. However, the judicial court has jurisdiction to deal with the statement or memorandum relating to legal costs incurred in the course of proceedings before a judicial court or industrial tribunal located within its jurisdiction. The Secretary General of the Ministry of Justice has jurisdiction to deal with memoranda relating…

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Article R224-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 6, 2023

Related to the certification procedure provided for in article R. 225: 1° The costs listed in article R. 92 which are subject to a fee structure set by the provisions of Title X of Book V (Decrees in the Council of State); 2° The fees provided for in 9° of this article, even if not subject to a fee structure; 3° The fees listed in Article R. 92 other than…

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Article R224-2 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 6, 2023

In addition, the following are subject to the certification procedure provided for in article R. 225: 1° The costs listed in article R. 93 that are subject to a fee structure set by a regulatory provision; 2° The State’s contributory share in the remuneration of court officers in matters of legal aid; 3° Costs assimilated to criminal, correctional and police court costs, other than those mentioned in 1° and 2°…

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Article R225 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 6, 2023

When the statement or memorandum relates to costs mentioned in 1° and 3° of article R. 224-1 and article R. 224-2, the court clerk or any other category B civil servant from the judicial services, after having made any necessary adjustments, certifies that he has verified the reality of the debt and its amount. When the statement relates to expenses mentioned in 2° of Article R. 224-1, this certificate is…

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Article R226 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 6, 2023

Statements or briefs relating to criminal, correctional and police court costs other than those listed in Article R. 224-1 are forwarded for requisition to the public prosecutor’s office of the jurisdiction in which the court has its seat. The public prosecutor forwards the statement or brief, together with his or her submissions, to the taxing magistrate.

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Article R227 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 6, 2023

The president of each court or the magistrate he delegates for this purpose shall tax statements or memoranda relating to costs incurred on the decision of authorities belonging to that court or persons acting under the control of those authorities. The president of the judicial court may also delegate to the examining magistrate, the sentence enforcement magistrate or the juvenile magistrate the taxation of costs incurred by them.

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Article R228-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 6, 2023

The tax order may be appealed by the party or the public prosecutor before the investigating chamber, regardless of the court to which the taxing magistrate belongs. The time limit for appeal is ten days from notification. The time limit for lodging an appeal and the lodging of an appeal within the time limit shall suspend execution.

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Article R229 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 6, 2023

An appeal against the tax order may be lodged with the examining magistrate’s chamber by the public prosecutor, at the request of the assigning accounting officer within a period of one month from receipt of the request for payment. In matters of legal aid, the one-month period runs from the transmission that is made by the competent authorising officer to the assigning accounting officer of the tax order. A reasoned…

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