Legislative part

Any time limit provided by a provision of criminal procedure for the performance of an act or formality expires on the last day at twenty-four hours. Any time limit that would normally expire on a Saturday or Sunday or on a public or bank holiday shall be extended until the next working day.

I. – All the documents referred to in this code, whether they are investigative documents, court decisions or any other procedural document, may be drawn up or converted into digital format. I. The entire procedural file may be stored in digital format, under secure conditions, without the need for a paper medium. Where these documents are drawn up in digital format and the provisions of this Code require them to…

In the event of a breach of the forms prescribed by law on pain of nullity or a failure to observe essential formalities, any court, including the Cour de cassation, which is seised of an application for annulment or which notes such an irregularity of its own motion may declare nullity only where the effect of the nullity has been to prejudice the interests of the party concerned.

Where, pursuant to this code, the public prosecutor or a court is seised of a request which must be answered by a reasoned decision subject to appeal, in the absence of a reply within two months of the request made by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or by declaration to the registry against receipt, this appeal may be exercised against the implied decision rejecting the request. This article shall…

Any person who has been the subject of a search or domiciliary visit pursuant to the provisions of this Code and who has not been prosecuted before an investigating or trial court at the earliest six months after this act has been carried out may, within a period of one year from the date on which he became aware of this measure, apply to the juge des libertés et de…

Where at least one of the offences prosecuted falls within a category of offences for the trial of which the court has, pursuant to the provisions of this code, concurrent and specialised territorial jurisdiction extending over the jurisdiction of several judicial courts or over the whole of the territory, the first president of the court of appeal may decide, in the interests of the proper administration of justice, because of…

No person may be handcuffed or shackled unless he or she is considered to be either dangerous to others or to himself or herself, or likely to attempt to abscond. In either case, all appropriate measures must be taken, in conditions compatible with security requirements, to prevent a handcuffed or shackled person from being photographed or the subject of an audiovisual recording.

I. – Where, by virtue of the provisions of the present code, notification to a lawyer is to be made by registered letter or by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, notification may also be made in the form of a fax with acknowledgement of receipt or by a consignment sent by a means of telecommunication to the lawyer’s electronic address and of which a written record is kept. II….

Any person who is brought before the investigating judge after being held in police custody or detained at the request of the public prosecutor or the sentence enforcement judge must appear the same day before this magistrate or, if an investigation is opened, before the investigating judge hearing the case. The same applies if the person is brought before the investigating judge following police custody in the course of a…

In case of necessity and notwithstanding the provisions of Article 803-2, the person may appear the following day and may be held for this purpose in specially equipped court premises, provided that this appearance takes place no later than twenty hours from the time at which police custody or detention was lifted, failing which the person concerned is immediately released. The magistrate before whom the person concerned is called to…