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Become a Judicial Officer

October 3, 2016 Uncategorized

become a bailiffJudicial officer is a profession which imposes many duties, the principal one being exemplarity as well as real responsibilities: actor of the economic life, guarantor of the respect of the rights and duties of the fellow citizens, he has the honor to fulfill a mission of public service. How to become a judicial officer?

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1- CONDITIONS OF ACCESS TO THE FUNCTIONS OF JUDICIAL OFFICER

Standard Terms and Conditions
  • Being French according to the code of nationality
  • Not to be subject to a criminal or disciplinary conviction without amnesty, nor to personal bankruptcy
Properly professional conditions
Hold a master's degree or master 1 in law or a degree recognized as equivalent to a master's degree in law which are :
  • doctorates in law;
  • advanced study diplomas (D.E.A.) and specialized advanced study diplomas (D.E.S.S.) in legal disciplines;
  • Master's degrees in science and technology in the legal disciplines;
  • the diploma of aptitude for the functions of notary;
  • the examination of professional aptitude for the duties of a solicitor;
  • the diploma of the autonomous and co-managed free faculty of economics and law of Paris.
Official texts

2- OBLIGATORY 2-YEAR INTERNSHIP IN A JUDICIAL OFFICER'S STUDY

Search for your internship
It is up to you to take your own steps to find your internship in a judicial officer's office.
The best time to look for and find an internship is between 1 June and 30 September in order to be able to register, in good time, for the pedagogical teaching of the Trainee Training Department.
The national chamber does not directly centralize offers and requests for internships, but several possibilities are available to you:
  • Consult the internship offers in our Announcements section and don't forget to place your own advertisement which will be published both on the Internet and in the New Judicial Officers' Journal (bimonthly).
  • You can also obtain information from the Departmental Chambers.

Mandatory entry on the internship register

 

When you have found a training supervisor to take you on, it is up to you, as soon as you are actually working in the study, to register as soon as possible on the register specially kept for this purpose by the departmental chamber concerned.
N.B.: To avoid any time lag, it is up to you to make your entry in the course register coincide with the beginning of the training course. In fact, although registration in the course register held by the departmental chamber can be done at any time of the year, registration in the DFS is logically limited in time, in order to be able to respect the beginning and end of the training cycles: Contact details of the departmental chambers.

The date of this registration is the starting point for the two years of the course. Do not omit to ask for an excerpt immediately. This document will be essential for you to compile your registration file with the Trainee Training Department.

WARNING : A two-year fixed-term contract is only possible if your employer chooses to make a professionalization contract (to conclude such a contract, the contact person to be contacted is imperatively the National School of Procedure).
Indeed, the Fixed Term Contract under ordinary law cannot exceed eighteen months.

3- IN PARALLEL WITH THE TRAINING COURSE, COMPULSORY D.F.S TRAINING AND FURTHER TRAINING OF THE E.N.P.E.P.

The Training Department of the Trainees has for objective the preparation of the professional examination of judicial officer.
Contact
Trainee Training Department
44, rue de Douai
75009 PARIS
Management: Thierry BARY
Secretariat: Alice BOCQUET
Tel: 01-49-70-12-85
Fax: 01-49-70-15-96
For the start of the 2016/2017 school year, registration for the DFS will be done electronically, via this page,
Registration will be open from September 26, 2016 until October 21, 2016.
Cost of the training: 600 euros per year, payable in 3 instalments of 200 euros by direct debit.
Tips: you can already prepare the following documents:
For the FIRST YEAR:
  • Colour passport photo (in JPG or PNG or TIFF format, size: 3.5cm x 4.5cm)
  • Identity card (both sides) OR passport OR family record book (only your birth certificate) (in PDF format)
  • Criminal Records Bulletin No. 3 (document less than three months old) (in PDF format)
  • Proof of degree: Master I of Law, and also (if you hold it) Master II of Law (or certificate of completion or transcript of records) (in PDF format)
  • Deliberation of registration in the training register of the departmental chamber of judicial officers on which the employer depends (in PDF format)
  •  A certificate of employment, on the letterhead of the study, issued and signed by the trainee's supervisor (document less than three months old), stamped with the stamp of the study and mentioning the date of entry into the study, the position held, the coefficient and the amount of the gross monthly remuneration (copies of the promise of employment and the employment contract are not accepted) (in PDF format)
  • The internship charter duly signed by both your employer and yourself and attested by the stamp of the study (in PDF format)


For the SECOND YEAR:

  • Registration in the training register of the Departmental Chamber of Judicial Officers on which the employer depends, (document less than three months old) (in PDF format)
  • Work certificate, on the letterhead of the study, issued and signed by the employer, mentioning the date of entry into the study, the position held, the coefficient and the amount of gross monthly remuneration, (document less than three months old) (in PDF format)
  • The internship charter duly signed by both your employer and yourself and attested by the stamp of the study (in PDF format

D.F.S. Program:

Teaching, which differs according to the year, is provided by pedagogical training days, distributed according to the programme below. This program is spread over two years between November 1 and June 30 of the calendar year.
  • The judicial officer and the private undersigning
  • Introduction to accounting
  • Public auctions: knowledge of the arts & sales techniques
  • The judicial officer and co-ownership
  • The judicial officer and rental contracts
  • The judicial officer and criminal activity
  • The judicial officer: Ethics and deontology
  • The judicial officer and the management of the company
  • The judicial officer administrator of buildings
  • The judicial officer and collective procedures
  • Professional liability of the judicial officer
  • Accounting, management, taxation, deontology, installation of the judicial officer
In addition, the trainee is required to follow the "theory test training" course given in the form of an e-Learning module accessible via the dedicated DFS Campus platform: www.dfscampus.fr.
To do so, each trainee is required to submit 2 training assignments per year. The subjects and the conditions for submitting copies via the DFS Campus platform will be communicated to the trainees by the DFS administrative services in due course.
Regional training centres
 
The training is conducted by professionals according to a pre-established schedule and by regional centres:
  • Aix en Provence
  • Bordeaux
  • Lille
  • Lyon
  • Paris
  • Rennes
  • Strasbourg
  • None (DOM)
Enrolment in the DFS is mandatory to follow this course. Anyone not registered will be refused at the conference venue.
Chaque stagiaire est affecté à un centre régional en fonction du domicile du maître de stage et « d’une carte scolaire » établie par le département formation. Consulter le tableau de répartition par département
The pedagogical training days take place during the week and are given over a period of two years in the six DFS centers.
They cover topics that are addressed in a practical manner, including tutorials in small groups.
The trainers are specialized according to the theme of the modules. They are all practising judicial officers except for the Accounting module where accountants are invited.
Further training offered by E.N.P.E.P.
The E.N.P.E.P. and the D.F.S. work in close collaboration in order to develop a coherent and complementary global pedagogy. It is, therefore, strongly recommended that trainees enrol in the expert clerkship of the National School of Procedure, a private joint establishment. The lectures are voluntarily organised according to a harmonised calendar with regard to the training days of the Trainee Training Department in order to avoid any overlapping of dates and to enable students to benefit from an optimal teaching.

4- PROFESSIONAL EXAMINATION OF JUDICIAL OFFICER

Passing the professional examination for judicial officers completes the training and gives you access to the profession of judicial officer.
Who can take the professional exam?
  • Graduates of a Master's degree -Master I- in law or a degree recognized as equivalent to a Master's degree in law.
  • Persons who have completed the professional internship.
  • People who have followed the 2 years of DFS teaching assiduously.
  • People who have not already taken the exam more than 4 times.
How is the professional exam going? 
  • The review shall take place at least once a year.
  • The programme and the terms and conditions are specified by order of the Minister of Justice.
  • The subjects of the written and oral tests are chosen by a national jury, composed of an adviser at the Court of Cassation, a professor or a lecturer teaching law, 2 judicial officers and a clerk of judicial officers, appointed by order of the Keeper of the Seals for a period of 3 years renewable once.
Written tests, eligibility tests: The tests take place over one day from 8.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. and 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.
  • Essay on a legal topic related to the activities of the Judicial Officer - duration 4h - Coeff 4
  • Drafting of documents concerning the procedure before the court of law and the exercise of enforcement - duration 3h - Coeff 3
Oral tests, admission tests: The tests take place over one or two days:
  • Civil law, commercial law, judicial organization, civil procedure and enforcement. - duration 20 min - Coeff 3
  • Labour law, criminal law and criminal procedure, labour law. - duration 10 min - Coeff 1
  • Professional regulation, Management of a bailiff's office, Accountancy-ethics. - Duration 15 min - Coeff 2
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