Admissibility of evidence: The Court of Cassation reaffirms the illegality of the evidence obtained through recordings and ends the opposition of the Paris Court of Appeal (Philips France, Sony France)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. In this ruling, the plenary session of the Court of Cassation cut short the resistance of the Paris Court of Appeal, which had persisted in admitting the legality of telephone recordings obtained without the knowledge of the companies concerned in its ruling of 29 April 2009, despite the censure ruling on this point by the Court of Cassation in the same case. We will not go back here on the twists and turns of the procedure and on the theses