# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第二百六十九条 (Article 269) - 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: 第二百六十九条 (Article 269)（大規模訴訟に係る事件における合議体の構成） — address `art-269` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-269 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-269 - 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. --- ### 第二百六十九条（大規模訴訟に係る事件における合議体の構成） — (Composition of the Panel in a Case Involving Large-Scale Litigation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-269 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-269 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-269 **第一項** 地方裁判所においては、前条に規定する事件について、五人の裁判官の合議体で審理及び裁判をする旨の決定をその合議体ですることができる。 art-269/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-269/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-269/par-1 In district court, a panel of five judges may rule that it will conduct a trial and reach a judicial decision on a case prescribed in the preceding Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合には、判事補は、同時に三人以上合議体に加わり、又は裁判長となることができない。 art-269/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-269/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-269/par-2 In a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, the panel may not contain three or more assistant judges at any one time, and no assistant judge may serve as presiding judge. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-269/par-1: 前条 → 民事訴訟法 第二百六十八条 (Article 268), art-268 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-268 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-268 - art-269/par-2: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百六十九条第一項 (Article 269, paragraph (1)), art-269/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-269/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-269/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第二百六十九条第二項（大規模訴訟に係る事件における合議体の構成） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-269/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-269/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第二百六十九条の二第二項（特許権等に関する訴えに係る事件における合議体の構成） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-269-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-269-2/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第二百九十七条第一項（第一審の訴訟手続の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-297/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-297/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