MAJOR JUDGMENTS IN CIVIL JURISPRUDENCE
The decisions of the first civil chamber concern the following areas assigned to it:
- Real estate agents
- International and internal arbitration
- Educational assistance
- Associations
- Commercial contracts when a non-commercial party has chosen the civil route
- Marriage contracts, matrimonial regimes, civil solidarity pacts
- Agricultural cooperatives and integration contracts in agriculture
- Discipline of judicial experts (articles 24 et seq. Of decree n ° 2004-1463 of 23 December 2004)
- Discipline and responsibility of lawyers and public and ministerial officers and legal advisers, except when the latter’s responsibility is called into question during the activity of a tax advisor
- War damage
- Personal and family law, with the exception of appeals relating to articles 9 and 9-1 of the civil code – divorce and legal separation – alimony and custody of minors
- Private International Law
- Consumer protection legislation, with the exception of personal over-indebtedness
- Extension of the maintenance of foreigners in administrative detention or in a waiting zone (articles L. 551-1-1 and following and Articles L. 221-1 and following of the code of entry and stay of foreigners and the right to asylum)
- Nationality,
- Obligations and civil contracts, with the exception of leases relating to buildings and real estate sales, as well as the liability of architects, contractors and developers
- Professional orders and organized professions with regard to their organization, operation and management, with the exception of lawyers’ fees
- Press (defamation, insult, respect for private life and image rights, respect for the presumption of innocence) (Articles 9 and 9-1 of the Civil Code)
- Taken to task
- Property and movable real rights
- Literary and artistic property
- Life annuities between individuals
- Requisitions
- Contractual liability and in particular liability of the land and air carrier of persons and medical liability
- Responsibility of the magistrates of the judicial body (article 11-1 modified of the ordinance n ° 58-1270 of December 22, 1958)
- Liability for faulty functioning of the justice service (article L. 781-1 of the code of judicial organization)
- Separation of powers
- Professional civil societies
- Spoliations
- Successions, donations, wills, partitions and liquidations
The decisions of the second civil chamber concern the following areas assigned to it:
- Land and recreational boating insurance (except construction insurance)
- Referral requests for legitimate suspicion
- Legal experts (registration on the lists)
- Lawyers’ fees
- Compensation for certain victims of bodily injury resulting from an offense (article 706-3 of the Code of Criminal Procedure)
- Compensation for transfused patients and hemophiliacs infected with HIV
- Legislation concerning returnees
- Election appeals, except for professional elections internal to the company
- Appeals against the judgments of the courts of appeal in which the compensation fund for victims of asbestos is party
- Civil procedure and enforcement, tariffs
- Pupils of the Nation
- Tort liability
- Social security (including accidents at work and family benefits)
- Over-indebtedness of individuals
The decisions of the third civil chamber concern the following areas assigned to it:
- Construction insurance
- Residential leases
- Commercial leases
- Rural leases
- Expropriations
- Real estate property (claim, easements, demarcation, joint ownership …)
- Possessory actions
- Real estate sales
- Co-ownership
- Subdivision
- Consolidation
- Town planning
- Company and works contracts
- Liability of architects, contractors and developers
- Mortgages and real estate privileges
- Advertisement fees
- Construction
- Real estate company
- Real estate promotion
- Environment and pollution
