Article R123 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure
November 6, 2023
Witnesses may be granted, if they so request: . 1. An appearance allowance; 2. Travel expenses; 3. A daily subsistence allowance;
Witnesses may be granted, if they so request: . 1. An appearance allowance; 2. Travel expenses; 3. A daily subsistence allowance;
Compensation awarded to witnesses shall be paid by the Treasury only insofar as they have been summoned or called, either at the request of the public prosecutor or pursuant to an order made ex officio in the cases provided for in articles 283 and 310.
Witnesses summoned or called at the request of either the accused or the civil parties shall receive the above-mentioned indemnities. They are paid to them by those who called them as witnesses.
Military personnel of the land, sea and air and space armies, on active service, when called as witnesses, are not entitled to any tax or indemnity payable out of the criminal, correctional and police justice funds, for travel and subsistence expenses, unless they are summoned to the place of their domicile, while on leave or on furlough, and on the date of their appearance such leave or furlough, is still…
Magistrates are required to state, in the warrants they issue for the benefit of witnesses, that the allocation of the compensation provided for in article R. 123 has been requested.
Witnesses aged sixteen or over who are called to give evidence either at an investigative hearing or before courts and tribunals ruling on criminal, correctional or police matters receive an appearance allowance determined by the following formula: I = 1.5 + (S x 4) in which: I is the amount of the fixed allowance expressed in euros; S is the minimum interprofessional growth wage as fixed on 1 January of…
When children under the age of sixteen called as witnesses under the conditions provided for in the preceding article are accompanied by a person under whose authority they are or, by his or her delegate, this person is entitled to the compensation provided for in the preceding article except where he or she has been appointed, as an ad hoc administrator and is on the list provided for in Article…
Where it is found that a witness, because of his infirmities had to be accompanied by a third party, the latter shall be entitled to the compensation provided for in articles R. 129 and R. 130.
Any witness is entitled to the indemnity provided for in articles R. 129, R. 130 and R. 131 even though he has been awarded an allowance for travel and subsistence expenses.
When witnesses travel, they will be awarded, on production of supporting evidence, a transport allowance calculated in accordance with the conditions laid down for travel by civil servants.
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