Chapter II: Forms of appeal

If one or more lawyers have been appointed, the President of the Chamber shall set a time limit for the filing of the pleadings with the Registrar of the Criminal Chamber. The President of that Chamber shall appoint an adviser to report after the pleadings have been filed. .

A party interested in the appeal who has not received a copy of the pleadings produced in support of the appeal may lodge an objection to the judgment handed down by the Cour de cassation, by declaration at the registry of the court which handed down the decision, within five days of the notification provided for in article 614.

The pleadings shall contain the grounds of cassation and refer to the legal texts whose infringement is alleged. They are drawn up on a stamp, unless the applicant is a person sentenced to a criminal penalty. They must be filed within the time limit. No additional pleadings may be attached to them after the assigned adviser has filed his report. Late filing of a pleading proposing additional pleas may result…

An applicant for judicial review who has not constituted a lawyer and has not lodged his statement of case within the time limit provided for in Article 584 shall forfeit his appeal. The same applies, unless an exemption is granted by the President of the Criminal Division, to an applicant who has been convicted of a criminal offence and who has not instructed a lawyer and to the Public Prosecutor’s…

The appeal shall lapse, in the cases and under the conditions set out in articles 567-2, 574-1, 574-2 and 590-1, shall be ordered by the President of the Criminal Division or the Councillor designated by him.