Paragraph 1: Common provisions

Subject to the provisions of the third paragraph of Article 2066 of the Civil Code , where the rules of procedure applicable before the court seised for the purpose of ruling on all or part of the dispute on the basis of paragraph 2 or 3 provide for a prior attempt at conciliation or mediation, the case shall be called directly to a hearing for judgment.

Before the judicial court and unless the entire dispute has been submitted to the ordinary law procedure, the case shall be called directly to a judgment hearing of the panel to which it has been distributed. The case may only be referred back to the pre-trial judge in the cases provided for in the second and third paragraphs of article 1561.