Does not retry facts. It quashes or upholds lower judgments on points of law and, when it quashes, usually remits the case to a differently composed court of appeal.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- supreme
- Court type
- Supreme court of the judicial order
- Jurisdiction
- National civil, commercial, social and criminal law
- Seat
- Paris
- Established
- 1790
- Composition
- Six chambers plus plenary and mixed formations
Where an appeal goes next
None domestically; ECHR application possible
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