Training programme

Learning objectives

At the end of the course, trainees will be able to :

  1. Identify recent developments in case law relating to enforcement procedures
  2. Mastering the current issues relating to enforceable titles, claims and the JEX
  3. Integrating the impact of consumer public policy (unfair terms) into foreclosure practice
  4. Applying recent case law on property seizures

Module 1 - Overview of enforcement procedures

  • The writ of execution: starting point of the limitation period (Cass. 2e civ., 5 Oct. 2023), incompleteness of the executory clause (Cass. 2e civ., 6 Feb. 2025)
  • Liquid claims: increased interest (Cass. 2e civ., 12 Jan. 2023), accounts between the parties (Cass. 2e civ., 15 Apr. 2021)
  • Current events
  • The enforcement judge: partial repeal of article L. 213-6 COJ (Cons. const., 17 Nov. 2023; Cass. 2e civ., 13 March 2025), res judicata and CJEU case law

Module 2 - Consumer public policy and enforcement procedures

  • The notion of acceleration in consumer law
  • The concept of an unfair term and what is deemed to be unwritten
  • Case law: CJEU and Cour de cassation
  • The solutions envisaged and warning signs for the practitioner
  • Impact on the property seizure procedure: office of the JEX, pleas raised ex officio

Module 3 - Overview of property seizures

  • Limitation period for seizures of immovable property: starting and ending points of the period
  • Descriptive minutes: legal aspects and recent litigation
  • The orientation hearing: challenges by the creditor, the title and the claim
  • The referral judgment: operative part, effects, appeal, impact of public policy on consumption on appeal
  • The auction: price setting, appeal for misuse of power, appeal for revision, enforceability of the lease