Paragraph 4: The knowledge test referred to in article L. 811-5

I.-Applications from the persons referred to in article R. 811-27 shall be sent to the secretariat of the Commission nationale d’inscription et de discipline des administrateurs judiciaires et des mandataires judiciaires, by registered letter, with acknowledgement of receipt or by any other means that ensures receipt or allows the date to be determined, no later than three months before the date of the first test of the session. II –…

The examination to test knowledge is organised at least once a year. The dates and locations of the tests are set by the Minister of Justice and published four months before the date of the first test in the Official Journal of the French Republic.

Two months before the date of the first test of the session, the Commission will draw up a list of candidates admitted to sit the knowledge-testing examination. Individual invitations specifying the day, time and place of the test will be sent to each candidate at least fifteen days in advance by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or by any other means. Individual invitations mentioning the day, time and place…

The knowledge-testing examination consists of the following tests: 1° A written test, lasting five hours, the purpose of which is to deal with a case file relating to one or more of the tasks likely to be entrusted to a judicial administrator. The mark is assigned a coefficient of 2. The mark is weighted at 2. > An oral examination consisting of a question and answer session. 2° An oral…

For the written test, candidates may use codes and compendia of laws and decrees containing references to articles of doctrine and case law, excluding however codes annotated and commented on, article by article, by legal professionals. They may also use codes or compendia of laws and decrees containing no indication of doctrine or case law, with no notes other than references to legislative or regulatory texts. The written test will…

Each test is marked from 0 to 20. Each mark is subject to the coefficient laid down for the corresponding test. Admission is decided by the selection board on the basis of the average of the marks obtained by the candidate in all the tests, if this is equal to or higher than 10 out of 20.

The selection board will draw up a list of candidates who have been admitted. This list is published in the Journal officiel de la République française. The results are notified individually to each candidate.

The application for inclusion on the list of persons mentioned in article R. 811-27 is examined in accordance with the procedures set out in articles R. 811-29 and R. 811-31 to R. 811-35.