Judicial Experts: Legal
@ Dozy : jcjeant is absolutely right.
Only the Juge d'Instruction has the power to demand un rapport des Experts Judiciares.
The judge ordered this because she would need 3 months of A332 sim to understand the intricacies so the Experts Judiciares is an ham-fisted shortcut.
What would really throw a spanner in the legal works is mounting pressure to get rid of the status of the Juge d'Instruction altogether and move an to an adversarial system by ditching the inquistorial one.
This was done in Italy in 1988.
Just for the record, over the last 30 years, the power of Juge d'Instruction has been eroded by endless reform so much so that it really be hightime to axe it.
Its survival was further damaged by the Outtreau Affair which was led by an incompetent Juge d'Instruction.