Article 12Judicial Decision of Disqualification or Challenge, and Stay of Proceedings
第十二条（除斥又は忌避の裁判及び手続の停止）
A judicial decision of disqualification or a challenge to a judge who is a member of a panel or a single judge of a family court is to be made by the court to which the judge belongs, and a judicial decision on the disqualification or a challenge to a judge of a summary court who is to serve as a commissioned judge are to be made by the district court which has jurisdiction over the venue of that summary court.
合議体の構成員である裁判官及び家庭裁判所の一人の裁判官の除斥又は忌避についてはその裁判官の所属する裁判所が、受託裁判官として職務を行う簡易裁判所の裁判官の除斥又は忌避についてはその裁判所の所在地を管轄する地方裁判所が、裁判をする。
The judicial decision in a family court and a district court as set forth in the preceding paragraph is to be made by a panel.
家庭裁判所及び地方裁判所における前項の裁判は、合議体でする。
A judge may not participate in the judicial proceeding on the disqualification or a challenge to themselves.
裁判官は、その除斥又は忌避についての裁判に関与することができない。
When a motion for disqualification or challenge is filed, the proceedings of the domestic relations case must be stayed until the judicial decision on the motion becomes final and binding; provided, however, that this does not apply to any urgent action.
除斥又は忌避の申立てがあったときは、その申立てについての裁判が確定するまで家事事件の手続を停止しなければならない。ただし、急速を要する行為については、この限りでない。
The provisions of paragraph (3) do not apply when dismissing a motion for a challenge on any of the following grounds:
次に掲げる事由があるとして忌避の申立てを却下する裁判をするときは、第三項の規定は、適用しない。
when it is clear that the motion for recusal is filed merely for the purpose of delaying the proceedings of the domestic relations case;
家事事件の手続を遅滞させる目的のみでされたことが明らかなとき。
when the motion is in violation of the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article; or
前条第二項の規定に違反するとき。
when the motion is in violation of a procedure specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court.
最高裁判所規則で定める手続に違反するとき。
Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2), the judicial decision set forth in the preceding paragraph may be made by an authorized judge, etc. (meaning an authorized judge, a commissioned judge, a judge who composes a mediation committee, or a judge of a family court handling a domestic relations case; the same applies in the proviso to paragraph (3) of the following Article) who has been challenged.
When the judicial decision set forth in paragraph (5) is made, the proceedings of the domestic relations case will not be stayed, notwithstanding the provisions of main clause of paragraph (4).
No appeal may be entered against a judicial decision which finds that the disqualification or challenge is well-grounded.
除斥又は忌避を理由があるとする裁判に対しては、不服を申し立てることができない。
An immediate appeal may be filed against a judicial decision to dismiss a motion for a disqualification or challenge.
除斥又は忌避の申立てを却下する裁判に対しては、即時抗告をすることができる。
domestic relations cases
「家事事件」
A case of adjudication of domestic relations (家事審判) or of mediation of domestic relations (家事調停): the family matters whose procedure this Act governs.
Short name set inArticle 1, paragraph (1)
authorized judge, etc.machine translation
「受命裁判官等」
In Article 12, paragraph (6) and the proviso to Article 13, paragraph (3), an authorized judge (受命裁判官, a member of the court's panel given a task), a commissioned judge (受託裁判官, a judge of another court asked to do it), a judge on a mediation committee (調停委員会), or the single judge of a family court handling a domestic relations case (家事事件).
Defined inArticle 12, paragraph (6)· applies only in this provision and in Article 13, paragraph (3)
summary court
簡易裁判所
One of the four kinds of lower court (下級裁判所) beneath the Supreme Court, with the high courts (高等裁判所), the district courts (地方裁判所) and the family courts (家庭裁判所) (Courts Act, Article 1, and Article 2, paragraph (1)). A summary court has jurisdiction at first instance over civil claims whose value does not exceed 1.4 million yen, other than claims in administrative cases, and over criminal cases for offences punishable by no more than a fine or for which a fine is one of the penalties the law allows, among others (Article 33, paragraph (1)). A petition for court mediation goes, unless a special rule says otherwise, to the summary court for the place where the other party lives or has its business office or other office, or to a district court or summary court the parties agree on (Civil Mediation Act, Article 3, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Courts Act, Arts. 1, 2, 33 and Civil Mediation Act, Art. 3 as a reference.