Parquet (legal)
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The parquet is the office of the
criminal trials against individuals or parties accused of breaking the law.[1]
Office
The word literally means "
wooden floor"; this is because, as opposed to the judges
, who sit on an elevated platform during trials, the prosecution pleads standing on the floor. This also explains why the judges are sometimes referred to as "sitting magistrates" (magistrature assise) or "magistrates of the bench" (magistrats du siège) while the prosecutors are sometimes referred to as "standing magistrates" (magistrature debout).
In
cour d'appel) or the Supreme Court (Cour de Cassation
).
In
Ministério Público
), is metonymically referred to as the parquet.
In Romania, the prosecutor's office, the "Public Ministry" (Ministerul Public), is also called the parchet (pronounced [parˈket]) and is allocated to a certain court at the local or national level.
In
Openbaar Ministerie
).
See also
- Prosecutor
- Public prosecutor's office (German: Staatsanwaltschaft)
- Prosecution Ministry
References
- ^ "Q'est ce que le parquet ?" [What is the parquet?]. Vie-publique.fr. Direction de l'information légale et administrative.