Laure-Alice Bouvier is a lawyer at the Paris Bar and a doctor of law. The attacker of an octogenarian doctor was sentenced for aggravated violence to a 6-month prison sentence suspended for three years and 4,500 euros in damages.
Bouvier: The referral of the attacker to the criminal court was done not before a collegial panel, but before a single judge. The logic of collegiality allows expertise to be pooled and perspectives to be compared, thus promoting a balanced and thoughtful decision.