Cour de Justice de la République

Notably, Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux was fined in 2010 for making racial slurs.

[3] Ministers tried before the CJR are heard by a fifteen-judge panel made up of three justices of the Court of Cassation and twelve parliamentarians: six each from the National Assembly and Senate.

[1] The tribunal's composition has been criticised on grounds of partiality, since the twelve parliamentarians are likely to be colleagues, or at least acquaintances, of the ministers on trial.

The first concerns Éric Wœrth, who is being investigated for "unlawful conflict of interests" over the sale of a racecourse while he was budget minister.

Then on 4 August 2011, the Petitions Commission said they would also greenlight an investigation into former finance minister Christine Lagarde over concerns about her part in a long-running scandal connected to the French tycoon Bernard Tapie.