Section 4: Proceedings before the Disciplinary Boards

Unless the provisions of article R. 4126-5 are applied, the complaint or application and the documents attached thereto shall be communicated in their entirety to the parties in copy form. Where the volume, number or characteristics of the documents produced make it impossible to produce copies, the parties are invited to consult them at the court registry. The notice invites the parties to produce a statement of case and all…

The parties shall be informed that they may be represented or assisted by a lawyer. However, practitioners, whether they are plaintiffs, claimants or the subject of the proceedings, may be assisted either by a lawyer or by a colleague entered on the roll of the Association to which they belong, or by both. This colleague may not be a member of a Bar Council. The National Council or the Departmental…

The departmental council on whose roll the practitioner is registered on the date on which the disciplinary proceedings are initiated or, failing this, the council on whose roll he was last registered, will be notified of the pleadings and documents produced by the parties. This council may submit observations in the number and within the time required in the communication. These are communicated to the other parties. If, in the…

Where the complaint or submissions are inadmissible on grounds that may be remedied in the course of the proceedings, the court may not reject them by noting the inadmissibility of its own motion until it has invited the party submitting them to put them in order. However, the National Disciplinary Chamber may reject such submissions without first requesting them to be put in order in cases of inadmissibility arising from…

Articles R. 611-2 to R. 611-5 of the Code of Administrative Justice relating to the communication of pleadings and exhibits, the first paragraph of article R. 611-7 relating to the grounds raised ex officio, article R. 611-8-1 relating to the summary pleading and articles R. 613-1, with the exception of its last sentence, to R. 613-4 relating to the closure of the investigation are applicable before the disciplinary chambers of…