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Justice 2022
Justice reform: publication of two laws in the Official Journal
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Organization of justice, dematerialization, procedures, penalties... The Law on Programming 2018-2022 and Reform for Justice and the Organic Law on Strengthening the Organization of Courts were published in the Official Journal of 24 March 2019.
These texts provide in particular for:
- the establishment of a national counter-terrorism prosecutor's office;
- the merger of the court of first instance and the court of first instance;
- the possibility of reforming juvenile justice;
- filing a complaint online;
- the development of amicable settlement methods;
- extending the use of a lawyer in complex disputes;
- simplifying the divorce procedure (excluding divorce by mutual consent) by abolishing the conciliation phase;
- the application of a flat-rate fine to the offenses of selling alcohol to minors and using drugs (€200);
- the rewriting of the scale of sentences (extension of the possibilities of recourse to community service, no prison sentence below one month, execution of sentences from one to six months under an electronic bracelet, in a day-release center or in an outside placement in an association, no adjustment of sentence for sentences beyond one year, systematization of the release under duress to 2/3 of the duration provided for prisoners sentenced to a sentence of up to five years...);
- the diversification of care arrangements for juvenile offenders.
Please note
However, some provisions have been censored by the Constitutional Council, including:
- the possibility of reviewing the amounts of maintenance payments by the Family Allowance Funds;
- the use of special investigative techniques (interceptions of correspondence, etc.);
- the use (without the person's consent) of videoconferencing in debates for the extension of pre-trial detention.
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