Filing a civil suit in France

The term "civil party" is often confused with the term "victim", when in fact it is not quite the same concept. A civil party is a person who considers himself to be the victim of an offence and who intervenes as such in a procedure with the objective of obtaining...

Police custody in France

Police custody is a measure that deprives a person of liberty if there are one or more reasonable grounds for suspecting that he or she has committed or attempted to commit a crime or an offence liable to a prison sentence. Police custody must be the only way to achieve...