Article 153 of Code of Civil Procedure

The time limit for an appeal in cassation shall be sixty days. It shall be brought by a petition deposited with the Registry of the Court of Cassation or of the court that rendered the challenged judgment, and signed by an advocate. In addition to the particulars relating to the litigants' names, capacities, and each litigant's domicile and place of work, the petition shall identify the challenged judgment and its date, and state the grounds on which the appeal is based and the appellant's requests. If the appeal is not brought in this manner, it shall be void, and the court shall declare it void of its own motion. No ground of appeal other than those stated in the petition may be invoked. Nevertheless, grounds based on public policy may be invoked at any time, and the court shall apply them of its own motion. The appellant must deposit, upon submission of the appeal, by way of security, two hundred and fifty dinars if the challenged judgment was rendered by a Summary Court or the Court of First Instance, and five hundred dinars if it was rendered by the Court of Appeal. The Registry shall not accept the appeal petition unless accompanied by proof of deposit of the security. A single security deposit shall suffice where there are multiple appellants if they bring their appeal in a single petition, even if the grounds of appeal differ. The Government shall be exempt from depositing this security, as shall persons exempt from judicial fees. The security shall be forfeited by operation of law whenever judgment is rendered declaring the appeal inadmissible, impermissible, lapsed or void, or dismissing it. The appellant must also, when submitting the petition, deposit with the Registry as many copies thereof as there are respondents, and one copy for the Registry. He must also deposit at the same time: A- An official copy or the served copy of the challenged judgment, and another official copy of the first-instance judgment if the challenged judgment referred to it in its grounds; otherwise, the appeal shall be declared inadmissible. B- The documents supporting the appeal. The Court Registry must deliver to any litigant wishing it such copies of judgments, documents or papers as he requests, endorsed with the phrase: Copy for submission to the Court of Cassation. The Court of Cassation may order that the case file in which the challenged judgment was rendered be joined. If the appeal petition was deposited with the registry of the court that rendered the judgment, its Registry must send all the appeal papers to the Court of Cassation on the day following deposit of the petition. If it appears to the appellant that there is a ground for requesting a temporary stay of execution of the challenged judgment, he must include it in the appeal petition. The Registry shall notify the Cassation Prosecution to express its opinion on the request in writing within three days or orally at the hearing. The appellant must serve his opponent with notice of the hearing and the appeal petition. The court may deem the request never to have existed if the opponent has not been served with notice of the scheduled hearing and this is attributable to the appellant's act. The court must, 1( Replaced by Decree No. 6 of 2025 if it orders a stay of execution, fix a hearing to consider the appeal before it within a period not exceeding six months and refer the appeal file to the Prosecution to deposit a memorandum of its opinion within the period it specifies for it. (1)