Dual Degree Students Visit the Court of Cassation in Paris
BCL/Maîtrise students currently in their third year in
Judges Bernard Travier, official representative of the First President of the Court, and Hugues Adida-Canac, conseiller référendaire of the Second Civil Chamber, welcomed the students. They gave a talk on the history, functioning and main legal issues currently facing the Court of Cassation. Greeting the students, Justice Travier said that he was ‘delighted by the visit and turnout of the 20 students and that the Court has always strongly supported initiatives which open the doors of the institution to younger generations. A guided tour followed leading to visits to the First Civil Chamber (see below), the galerie Saint-Louis and the Salle des pas perdus of the Palais de Justice.
The Court of Cassation is the highest court in the French judicial system. The particular feature of the Court is that it does not rule on the merits but deals with appeals on points of law from the decisions of the appeal courts and other lower courts. Its characteristics and the ‘extraordinary remedy’ it provides to French litigants, originate in the events of the French Revolution when a ‘Tribunal of Cassation’ was established in 1790, although the history of the Court goes back to the way justice was delivered under the Ancien Régime.
The Court consists of six Chambers – the First, Second and Third Civil Chambers, the Criminal Chamber, the Social Chamber, and the Commercial, Economic and Financial Chamber. The First President of the Court is currently Justice Vincent Lamanda.
Court of Cassation, 5 Quai de l’Horloge,
Judges Hugues Adida-Canac (far left), Bernard Travier (middle), and Dr. Marie-Luce Paris
Dual Degree Students in the Social Chamber of the Court
Court room, First Civil Chamber
First row: Dr. Turenne (Cambridge), Dr. Paris (UCD), Aurélie Pestoni, Sarah Taheny, Amy Shiels; Behind: Guillaume Conquer, Caroline Personnat, Rachel Clark, Paul Charlot, Emile Cochaud, Arcadie Cotruta, Graeme Anderson, Charles de Cerjat, Flora Oriot, Hannah Fleetwood, Hervé Hansen, Alix Momméja, Clément Lecomte, Sean Mernagh
