Section 4: Provisions relating to victims and civil parties

When the person sentenced to a custodial sentence is not immediately incarcerated following the judgment, the victim may also request, in accordance with the procedures set out in Article D. 49-72, not to be informed of the execution of this sentence.

Where the civil party’s lawyer has informed the sentence enforcement judge, by declaration to the clerk’s office or by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, that he wishes to attend the adversarial hearing before the sentence enforcement court to put forward his observations in accordance with the provisions of the fourth paragraph of article 730, he or she will be notified of the date on which the adversarial hearing will…