Section 1: General provisions

The judgments of the Investigating Chamber are signed by the President and the Registrar. They shall mention the names of the judges, the filing of exhibits and briefs, the reading of the report, the submissions of the public prosecutor and, where applicable, the hearing of the parties or their lawyers. The chamber shall order the perpetrator of the offence to pay the civil party the sum it determines, in respect…

Except in the case provided for in Article 196, the parties’ lawyers are notified of the judgments within three days by registered letter. In the same way and within the same time limits, the parties are informed of the decisions to dismiss the case and the decisions to refer the case to the criminal or police court. Rulings against which the parties may lodge an appeal to the Supreme Court,…

The provisions of articles 171,172 and of the last paragraph of Article 174 shall apply to this chapter. The regularity of the judgments of the investigating chambers and the regularity of the previous proceedings, when this chamber has ruled on the settlement of proceedings, is subject to the sole review of the Cour de cassation, whether the appeal is immediately admissible or whether it can only be examined with the…