Tribunal de grande instance de Paris

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Tribunal judiciaire de Paris
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Tribunal de grande instance de Paris
JurisdictionParis city with certain national and inter-regional cases
Location Batignolles, Paris [1]
Number of positions536 magistrates (361 judges, 122 magistrates, and 53 local judges) and 950 civil servants
Website https://www.tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr
President
CurrentlyStéphane Noel
Since2020
Three vice-presidents

The Tribunal judiciaire de Paris (abbreviated TJ; in English: Judicial Court of Paris ), located at the Judicial Campus of Paris in Batignolles, is the largest court in France by caseload. It replaced the capital's former Tribunal de grande instance (Court of major instance) and Tribunal d'instance (court of petty instance) under an amalgamation of jurisdictions that came into effect on January 1, 2020. [2]

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Jurisdiction

The jurisdiction of the Paris judicial court is nationwide for matters of:

The court has inter-regional jurisdiction in matters of:

For all other matters, its jurisdiction is limited to the entire capital. It is one of the courts subject to the appellate jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal of Paris.

Organization

As of 2009, TGI was organized in the following hierarchy: [10]

In May 2019, Jean-François Ricard was appointed Advocate General at the Court of Cassation to exercise the function of anti-terrorism public prosecutor at the Tribunal de grande instance de Paris, heading a new National Terrorism Prosecution Office (Parquet national antiterroriste  [ fr ]; PNAT), beginning on 25 June 2019. [11] He leads a team of 25 magistrates. [12]

Building

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Tribunal de Paris building

Designed by architect Renzo Piano (famous for the Centre Pompidou), the Tribunal de Paris building consolidates several major and minor courts and tribunals into one building. [13] The building is 38 storeys and 160m high. [14] Inside the building are 90 law courts, offices and public facilities. [15]

Located close by is 36, rue du Bastion (Regional Directorate headquarters of the Judicial Paris Police Prefecture) and the Maison de l'ordre des avocats (Offices of the Parisian Bar association) - together, the three buildings form the Judicial Campus of Paris (Cité judiciaire de Paris). [13] [16]

The move from the Palais de Justice was announced on 29 April 2009 by Nicolas Sarkozy, and the contract was signed in 2012. [17] [16] The building was opened in 2018, and was officially inaugurated in April 2019 by French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe. [18]

Location

The Tribunal judiciaire is located at the Judicial Campus of Paris (Cité judiciaire de Paris) in the Batignolles district.

Porte de Clichy station on Line 13, Line 14, RER C and Tramway 3b serves the site, with the subtitle Tribunal de Paris appearing on maps and the station platforms from September 2018.

Previous location

The TGI was previously located in the Palace of Justice on the Île de la Cité along with the Court of Appeal of Paris and the Court of Cassation. This site (formerly called Palace of the City) hosted the Parlement during the Ancien Régime . The Sainte-Chapelle and Conciergerie are remnants of the medieval royal palace, the Palais de la Cité, open to the public today. The palace is adjacent to 36, quai des Orfèvres where the Direction Régionale de Police Judiciaire de Paris (Regional Directorate of the Judicial Police of Paris) was located before it, too, moved to Batignolles.

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  2. ↑ "Création du tribunal judiciaire au 1er janvier 2020 | Ordre des avocats de Paris". www.avocatparis.org. Archived from the original on 2019-12-14.
  3. ↑ "Code de procédure pénale - Article 628" [Criminal Procedure Code - Article 628]. Legifrance.gouv.fr (in French). Le Service Public de la Defussion de Droit. 15 December 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
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  7. 1 2 "Code de procédure pénale - Article 704" [Criminal Procedure Code - Article 704]. Legifrance.gouv.fr (in French). Le Service Public de la Defussion de Droit. 1 January 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
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  10. ↑ Chancellery cited by du Luart, 2009, page 12
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