Chapter II: Conciliation conducted by a court-appointed conciliator

Any natural or legal person may refer a matter to the judicial conciliator instituted by the decree of 20 March 1978 relating to judicial conciliators, without any formality.

If necessary, the court conciliator invites the interested parties to appear before him.

With the consent of the parties concerned, the mediator may visit the premises and interview any persons he deems useful, subject to their agreement.

With the agreement of the parties, the judicial conciliator may enlist the assistance of another judicial conciliator within the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal. When the parties meet, the judicial conciliators may exchange information about the claims before them. The document recording the parties’ agreement is signed by the two judicial conciliators.

In the event of conciliation, even partial conciliation, a statement of agreement may be drawn up and signed by the parties and the conciliator. The conciliation may also be recorded in a statement signed by the conciliator and one or more of the parties where one or more of them have formalised the terms of the agreement to which they consent in a deed signed by them and drawn up…

The application for homologation of the agreement resulting from the conciliation is submitted to the judge by request of all the parties to the conciliation or of one of them, with the express agreement of the others.