The Terres australes et antarctiques françaises (TAAF) are French overseas possessions with administrative and financial autonomy. The TAAF website is provided by the Préfet, the administrative authority for the territories and includes legal information.
Online article looking at the effects of cancellation decisions made by administrative courts on the validity of private law contracts, written by Vedat Buz, Associate Professor of Civil Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Ankara, and çagdas Evrim Ergün, an associate with Turkish law firm çakmak and a PhD candidate at the University of Ankara. The article was published in the features section of LLRX.com in March 2007.
Official website of the Congress of the French overseas territory of New Caledonia. The site provides a history of the institution and information on its composition and role, including a list of members. Laws, constitutional texts, political agreements, speeches and procedural rules of the Congress are available, and there is an events calendar. The site is in French only.
N-Lex provides a single search interface that can be used to search any of the national legislation websites of the EU member states. The search page is available in all 24 EU official languages. When searching by key words, either machine translation or the multilingual Eurovoc thesaurus can be used to translate them. For each state there is also general information about the types of legislation produced and the website to which the N-Lex search interface applies.
The Cour de cassation is the highest court in France, with jurisdiction to review decisions arising from lower criminal and civil courts. It deals with questions of law and the application of law, not questions of fact. Its website provides a database of cases from 1947 onwards, together with background information about the court. English translations of some recent judgments are available on the 'International' page.
The Chambre des Notaires de Paris is the professional body for notaries in Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne. Notaries in France deal with matters of marriage and cohabitation, succession, real estate, taxation, and business law. The website provides information for the public about the law, notarial services and the notarial profession. There is a directory of notaries ("annuaire") searchable by name, address or district, together with outlines of French law relating to wills and succession, marriage and cohabitation, children, real property, taxation and businesses.
Affaires publiques is a website specialising in French administrative law, edited by the lawyer Joël Cartron. It provides summaries of legislation (with links to the full text on the Légifrance website) and blogs about particular laws and related documents. Some content is restricted to subscribers. The site is entirely in French.
Legifrance is the official French law website. The contents include the Constitution and individual laws in force (under 'Textes consolidés'); more than 70 codes; the Journal Officiel from 1869 onwards, cases, draft laws and other parliamentary material (under 'Dossiers legislatifs'). The site, which is entirely in French, can be browsed by type of material, and basic and advanced search facilities are available.
