Assignation en extension des opérations d'expertise

17:17 Mar 16, 2019 

Even if the original document orders specific parties to appear before the court, "summons" is still not a proper translation because that's not what "summons" means in US law.

A summons to a party is issued at the absolute beginning of litigation. It is served along with the complaint. That's not where we are in this case: per art. 245 of the Code du procédure civile, a judge cannot extend the scope of an expert's investigation until the initial phase of the expert's original investigation is done and has been heard by the court ("Le juge ne peut, sans avoir préalablement recueilli les observations du technicien commis, étendre la mission de celui-ci...").

A "witness summons," as distinct from a summons to a party, can be issued later but is not actually properly called a summons; it's a subpoena. And this is clearly not a witness summons -- this document is about whether the existing expert's investigation should be expanded to cover more issues than were originally assigned. That has nothing to do with a witness summons.

14:14 Mar 16, 2019 

More context of the document would be helpful, including:
- the type of "expertise" involved
- the specific phrasing used in an extract of the document

07:40 Mar 16, 2019 

It would be helpful if the questioner would read through the document being translated and say whether any parties are being called upon to attend court.

20:03 Mar 15, 2019 

Summons is wrong. A summons orders a particular person to appear before the court, usually as a defendant, sometimes as a witness (the proper term for a witness summons is a subpoena). If they don't show up, they may be held in contempt of court, and even jailed. Assignation is the translation for those terms, but those terms aren't the only translations of assignation.

This "assignation" does not order anyone to appear before the court. It is just a request to expand the scope of a court-ordered expert investigation. If a party were filing such a request in the US it might be called a "Motion" or a "Petition," but we don't know who filed it here (in France experts work for the court, not the parties, so the court might be letting the parties know that it's considering expanding the investigation), and each jurisdiction has its own terminology so a general term like request works better.

This is the primary meaning of summons:
https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/summons
And here's the definition when it's a witness summons (not the case here): https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Witness summo... ("witness summons" redirects to the proper term, subpoena).

16:05 Mar 15, 2019 

Someone asked for a translation of the same term into German here years ago. The German translation was apparently the equivalent of the English "extension request" or "application for extension" (of scope of expert investigation).

https://www.proz.com/kudoz/french-to-german/law-general/2593...

15:46 Mar 14, 2019 

Have you read the subpoena? That should answer your question. What does it say?