Chapter II: Court of Revision and Reconsideration

The application for revision or reconsideration is submitted to the Court of Revision and Reconsideration. This court is made up of eighteen magistrates from the Cour de cassation, including the president of the criminal chamber, who presides over the court of revision and reconsideration. The other seventeen magistrates are appointed, by the general assembly of the Cour de cassation, for a term of three years, renewable once. Each of the…

The Court of Revision and Reconsideration appoints from among its members, for a period of three years, renewable once, five permanent magistrates and five substitute magistrates who make up the committee investigating applications for revision and reconsideration. The committee appoints a chairman from among its members. The judges who sit on the investigating committee and their alternates may not sit on the judgment panel of the Court of Revision and…