List legal courses of call in France

In France, in the field of the jurisdiction ratione loci, the Court of Appeal of the legal order knows judgments of the jurisdictions located in its spring.

The Court of Appeal knows, in theory, all the calls interjetés against the jurisdictional decisions of first authority, as well as the decisions of the examining magistrates. In this case, it sits in a formation called Chambre of the instruction.

Each court is structured in a variable number of rooms which are not, in theory, and contrary to those of the Court of appeal, specialized. These collegial formations of judgment are made up of an odd number of Magistrat S.

There are 35 cours d' call on the French territory, including 5 in overseas, and 2 higher courts of call.

Each court is qualified on several departments (2 to 4 on average). They are generally established in old the " Parliaments " , jurisdictions of the old mode, of which here the list and departments of their spring:

Agen : Gers, Batch and Lot-et-Garonne.
Aix-en-Provence : Alp-of-High-Provence, the Alpes-Maritimes, Rhone delta and VAr.
Amiens : Aisne, Oise, and Somme.
Angers : Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne, and the Sarthe.
Low-Ground : Guadeloupe.
Bastia : Corse-du-Sud and Haute-Corse.
Besancon : Doubs, the Jura, Haute-Saône and Territory-of-Belfort.
Bordeaux : Charente, the Dordogne and the Gironde.
Bourges : Expensive, Indre and Nievre.
Caen : Apple-brandy, Handle and Flowering ash.
Chambéry : Savoy and Haute-Savoie.
Colmar : Haut-Rhin and the Low-Rhine.
Dijon : Coast-with Or, Haute-Marne and Saône-et-Loire.
Douai : Northern and Pas-de-Calais.
Fort-de-France : Martinique and Guyana.
Grenoble : Hautes-Alpes, Drome and Isere.
Limoges : Corrèze, Digs, and High-Vienna.
Lyon : Ain, the Loire and the Rhone.
Metz : the Moselle.
Montpellier : Aude, Aveyron, Herault and the Eastern Pyrenees.
Nancy : Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse and the Vosges.
Nimes : Ardeche, Gard, Lozere and Vaucluse.
Noumea : New Caledonia.
Orleans : Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher and Loiret.
PAPEETE : French Polynesia.
Paris : Paris, Seine-et-Marne, Yonne, the Essonne, Seine-Saint-Denis and the Valley-of-Marne.
Pau : Moors, Yrénées-Atlantiques and Hautes-Pyrénées.
Poitiers : Charente-Maritime, Two-Sevres, the Vendée and Vienna.
Rheims : the Ardennes, Paddle, and the Marne.
Rennes : Coast-with Armor, Finistere, Ille-et-Vilaine, Loire-Atlantique and Morbihan.
Riom : To combine, Cantal, Haute-Loire and Puy-de-Dôme.
Rouen : the Eure and Seine-Maritime.
Saint-Denis : Meeting.
Toulouse : Ariège, Haute-Garonne, Tarn and Tarn-et-Garonne.
Versailles : Eure-et-Loir, Hauts-de-Seine, Val-d'Oise and Yvelines.

With Mayotte and Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon, there is no Court of Appeal, but a higher Tribunal of call .

Reform in the course of the legal Carte

If the geographical distribution of the courses of call hardly changed since their creations under the First Empire (the last reform of the legal chart goes back to 1958), this one however is regularly called into question in several jurisdictions. Thus, for example:

With Nantes, the Lawyer S and the Magistrat S have asserted for a few years, the creation of a Court of Appeal specific including the Loire-Atlantique and the the Vendée to the detriment of the secular membership at the Court of Appeal of historical Brittany.
In south-east, the majority of the professionals would wish the creation of a Court of Appeal to Nice in particular including the the Alpes-Maritimes and the Var, in order to unchoke the Court of Appeal of distant Aix of more than 200 km.

However, a reform of the legal chart initiated by the Minister of Justice Rachida Dati is currently in the course of discussion and the first decisions are planned for the September 30th 2007. Within the framework of this reform, the Ministre for Justice would wish not to preserve, in theory, that a Court of Appeal by administrative Régions, the territorial limits of chacunes of these jurisdictions not having to exceed the regional framework. Thus, the existence of several Courses of call could be called into question, like those of Agen, of Bourges, of Chambéry, of Grenoble, of Metz, of Nimes or Pau. Others, could also see their territorial competences modified by the addition or the withdrawal of departments their jurisdictions.

See too

External bonds

courses of call on the site of the ministry for the jutice
the reform of the legal chart on the site of the ministry for the jutice
Court of Appeal of Amiens

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