The costs of recovering fines imposed in the cases provided for by the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Penal Code are taxed in accordance with the rates for civil matters. These costs are not charged to the general funds for criminal, correctional and police court costs; they are advanced and regularised by the accountants of the Directorate General of Public Finance.
The costs of social investigations ordered in relation to the exercise of parental authority are recovered by the Directorate General of Public Finances in accordance with the procedures and under the guarantees provided for criminal fines. The party ordered to pay the costs may appeal against the provision of the decision relating to the settlement of these costs. In the absence of an appeal on the merits, the appeal, stating…
The person appointed by the judge to hear the minor, pursuant to article 388-1 of the Civil Code, is allocated, in addition to the reimbursement of his or her travel expenses calculated in accordance with the conditions laid down for travel by civil servants, a fixed fee set by joint order of the Minister of Justice and the Minister for the Budget. When this person has been unable to carry…
Stakeholders shall draw up and send their statements and bills of costs, together with supporting documents, in electronic form. To this end, they shall use the teleservice designated by the Minister of Justice. One statement or statement of expenses is drawn up for each assignment. However, stakeholders who habitually carry out several missions per month shall draw up a statement or statement of expenses summarising all the missions carried out…
The court with jurisdiction to deal with the statement or memorandum of legal costs is the court that prescribed the measure. However, the judicial court has jurisdiction to deal with the statement or memorandum relating to legal costs incurred in the course of proceedings before a judicial court or industrial tribunal located within its jurisdiction. The Secretary General of the Ministry of Justice has jurisdiction to deal with memoranda relating…
Related to the certification procedure provided for in article R. 225: 1° The costs listed in article R. 92 which are subject to a fee structure set by the provisions of Title X of Book V (Decrees in the Council of State); 2° The fees provided for in 9° of this article, even if not subject to a fee structure; 3° The fees listed in Article R. 92 other than…
In addition, the following are subject to the certification procedure provided for in article R. 225: 1° The costs listed in article R. 93 that are subject to a fee structure set by a regulatory provision; 2° The State’s contributory share in the remuneration of court officers in matters of legal aid; 3° Costs assimilated to criminal, correctional and police court costs, other than those mentioned in 1° and 2°…
When the statement or memorandum relates to costs mentioned in 1° and 3° of article R. 224-1 and article R. 224-2, the court clerk or any other category B civil servant from the judicial services, after having made any necessary adjustments, certifies that he has verified the reality of the debt and its amount. When the statement relates to expenses mentioned in 2° of Article R. 224-1, this certificate is…
Statements or briefs relating to criminal, correctional and police court costs other than those listed in Article R. 224-1 are forwarded for requisition to the public prosecutor’s office of the jurisdiction in which the court has its seat. The public prosecutor forwards the statement or brief, together with his or her submissions, to the taxing magistrate.
The president of each court or the magistrate he delegates for this purpose shall tax statements or memoranda relating to costs incurred on the decision of authorities belonging to that court or persons acting under the control of those authorities. The president of the judicial court may also delegate to the examining magistrate, the sentence enforcement magistrate or the juvenile magistrate the taxation of costs incurred by them.
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