Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts: Supreme Courts (France) - Conseil Constitutionnel

Date: 02/21/2008

Subject: The French Constitutional Council has validated the proceeding, provided for by the law on security detention measures (which allows detention in a medical-judiciary centre of detention), for people accused of certain serious crimes, provided that the persons involved may benefit of medical assistance specific to their personality disorder during detention. It has also decided that mention in criminal records of acquittals for psychiatric reasons harms right to privacy, except where security measures have been taken against the acquitted

Original language: French

Classification: Justice - Art. 49 Proportionality of penalties

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