La justice et le régime de Vichy : contribution à la notion d'indépendance en droit public français
Auteur / Autrice : | Mariannick Bourguet-Chassagnon |
Direction : | Michel Degoffe, Antoine Astaing |
Type : | Thèse de doctorat |
Discipline(s) : | Droit public |
Date : | Soutenance en 2005 |
Etablissement(s) : | Reims |
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Résumé
The study concerns the Justice in France from 1940 till 1944. The government of Vichy as soon as July 1940 abolished the organic independence of the judiciary, in particular by the suspension of the irremovability, in order to transform magistrates into partisans of the regime. It also tries to stop the power of interpretation of the jurisdictions, thanks to retroactive penal laws and to jurisdictions of exception. For their part, the authorities of occupation do not respect the principle of non bis idem and support the competence of the German military jurisdictions, in regardless of the binding force of the res judicata, with the aim of increasing the penal repression for the facts of resistance. However, the French Government intends to protect the appearances of the "Etat de droit" and protects, in law, the principle of delegated Justice, and thus the functional independence of magistrates. Therefore, an order sent by the Lord Chancellor to magistrates af the Seat remains illegal, as illustrates it the famous affair of the "section spéciale" of Paris. Besides, the power of interpretation of magistrates remains, for want of the government having restored the legislative emergency proceeding. So the power to judge jurisdictions of exception is increased by the absence of motivation of rulings and the abolition of the ways to appeal, which, paradoxically, sometimes allowed the emergence of decisions which do not conformed to the Governrnent's wishes. On the other hand, the preservation of the procedure of common law Ior the cornmon jurisdictions limits the possibilities of interpretation of the anti-Semitic legislations.