Settlement provisions in French legislation: procedures and effects

Abstract

In this article, we discuss the subject of the penal settlement in terms of its procedures and the legal implications of it. In light of the contemporary penal policy, the attorney general has become a path that falls between preservation and triggering the public lawsuit, which is to resort to alternatives to the public lawsuit within the framework of restorative justice, including the penal settlement in French legislation as a quick penal response. In order to understand the various procedures and stages of this mechanism, as well as determine their effects for the parties to the criminal litigation, we relied on the descriptive analytical approach. We concluded that the penal settlement has a major role in reducing the crisis of criminal justice in the French judicial system, Proposals for the Algerian legislator to take it.