High Court of Paris

The Tribunal de grande instance de Paris (abbreviated TGI; in English: High Court of Paris), located at the Palais de Justice in Paris, in l’Île de la Cité (city center), is the largest court in France by the number of cases.

The jurisdiction of the High Court of Paris is nationwide for matters of:

The court has inter-regional jurisdiction in matters of:

For all other matters, its jurisdiction is limited to the entire capital. It is one of the appeals courts for the Court of Appeal of Paris.

As of 2009, TGI is organized in the following hierarchy:

The TGI is located in the Palace of Justice on the Île de la Cité along with the Court of Appeal of Paris and the Court of Cassation. This site (formerly called Palace of the City) hosted the Parlement during the Ancien Régime. The Sainte-Chapelle and Conciergerie are remnants of the medieval royal palace, the Palais de la Cité, open to the public today. The palace is adjacent to 36, quai des Orfèvres where the Direction Régionale de Police Judiciaire de Paris (Regional Directorate of the Judicial Police of Paris) is located.

The TGI will be located at the Judicial Campus of Paris (Cité judiciaire de Paris) in the Batignolles district. The announcement was made on 29 April 2009 by Nicolas Sarkozy, and the contract signed in 2012. The Regional Directorate of the Judicial Police of Paris will be collocated at this site

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