International & Foreign Law News
11/5/2009 8:05:51 AM EST
France plans to cut powerful judges down to size
PARIS – (AP) France's investigating judges are a powerful lot: They can order phone taps and home searches, interrogate terrorists and bring down politicians. Now, one has even ordered former French President Jacques Chirac to stand trial.
Those sweeping powers may soon end.
President Nicolas Sarkozy's government is drawing up a reform plan … Full version (available to lexis.com subscribers)
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