Referral decision confirmed, appeal rejected by the Court of Cassation… Pierre Morel-À-L’Huissier, deputy for Lozère for 22 years, will be tried before the departmental criminal court for complicity in forgery in public documents, in the context of his divorce. All ordinary remedies have now been exhausted.
All ordinary appeals have now been exhausted for Pierre Morel-À-L’Huissier. The former deputy of Lozère for 22 years, who contested his referral to the departmental criminal court (CCD) for complicity in forgery in public writing, will be well judged by this court.
The investigating chamber of the Nîmes Court of Appeal first confirmed the referral decision, by a judgment rendered on December 14, 2025. The Court of Cassation for its part rejected its appeal on April 2, 2026.
The author of the possibly contentious document, the former notary Me Philippe Bardon, based at the time in Saint-Chély-d’Apcher, was also referred to the CCD.
A difficult divorce
So how could Pierre Morel-À-L’Huissier, himself a lawyer registered with the Paris bar, find himself in this particularly serious situation? It all happened during his divorce proceedings. The two Morel spouses then had to sign a document in the presence of the notary, a public and ministerial officer. However, the ex-Mrs. Morel-À-L’Huissier contested having initialed the form in front of Mr.e Philippe Bardon, even claimed not to have ratified it.
“A private matter”
Various investigative actions were carried out. The agendas of the different parties were studied. It would indeed seem that, on the day of signing “in the presence of the notary”, Me Philippe Bardon was not in Saint-Chély-d’Apcher, but in Nîmes. Telephone tapping also suggests that the two men agreed on the answers to give to investigators.
“This is a private matter in the context of a divorce, it is not a question of Pierre Morel-À-L’Huissier, deputy. There was no personal enrichment. A legal procedure takes place before a court, not before the press. This is the current trend in France”, quickly expressed the former parliamentarian, now a member of the political bureau of the Union of Rights for the Republic, Eric Ciotti’s party.
After the rejection of his appeal, the former MP therefore no longer has ordinary recourse. He can, however, refer the matter to the European Court of Human Rights or raise a priority question of constitutionality, steps with no suspensive effect on the procedure and the outcome of which remains uncertain.
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