Jurisdiction : The Paris Court of Appeals upholds the jurisdiction of the judges of the civil branch to rule on a private action against companies guilty of bid rigging in relation to public works contracts (Région Île-de-France)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. In a ruling handed down on 24 June 2015 in the Île-de-France high school markets case, the Paris Court of Appeal had the opportunity to reiterate the primacy of the judicial judge in private enforcement matters, by affirming its full jurisdiction for actions for damages brought against the authors of a public works contract-sharing agreement (CA Paris, pôle 5, ch. 4, 24 June 2015, Île-de-France Region, no. 14/01570). History of the case In this case, the facts of which date back more than twenty years, it should be remembered that the criminal judge (Criminal Court of Paris, judgment of 26 October 2005, Public Prosecutor v. Giraud, Nicol, Donzel and others)