# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第二十四条 (Article 24) - Law: 民事訴訟法 (Code of Civil Procedure), 平成八年法律第百九号 - English title "Code of Civil Procedure": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第二十四条 (Article 24)（裁判官の忌避） — address `art-24` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-24 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-24 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十四条（裁判官の忌避） — (Challenging a Judge) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-24 **第一項** 裁判官について裁判の公正を妨げるべき事情があるときは、当事者は、その裁判官を忌避することができる。 art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-24/par-1 If there are circumstances involving a judge which could prejudice the impartiality of a judicial decision, a party may challenge that judge. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 当事者は、裁判官の面前において弁論をし、又は弁論準備手続において申述をしたときは、その裁判官を忌避することができない。ただし、忌避の原因があることを知らなかったとき、又は忌避の原因がその後に生じたときは、この限りでない。 art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-24/par-2 Once a party has presented an oral argument or entered a statement in preparatory proceedings before a judge, the party may not challenge that judge; provided, however, that this does not apply if the party did not know of the existence of any grounds for challenge at that time or if the grounds for the challenge occur thereafter. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第九十二条の六第一項（専門委員の除斥及び忌避） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-92-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-92-6/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 第九十二条の九第一項（知的財産に関する事件における裁判所調査官の除斥及び忌避） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-92-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-92-9/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/408AC0000000109/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Civil Procedure — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4797/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - This site's parser, version 209 — 民事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17