# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第十一条 (Article 11) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-11. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 刑事訴訟法 (Code of Criminal Procedure), 昭和二十三年法律第百三十一号 - English title "Code of Criminal 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: 第十一条 (Article 11) — address `art-11` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-11 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. --- ### 第十一条 art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-11 **第一項** 同一事件が事物管轄を同じくする数個の裁判所に係属するときは、最初に公訴を受けた裁判所が、これを審判する。 art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-11/par-1 When the same case is pending before several courts which have the same subject-matter jurisdiction, said case will be tried by the court in which prosecution was first instituted. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 各裁判所に共通する直近上級の裁判所は、検察官又は被告人の請求により、決定で後に公訴を受けた裁判所にその事件を審判させることができる。 art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-11/par-2 The next higher court common to all of these courts may, upon the request of a public prosecutor or the defendant, make a ruling that the case is tried by a court in which prosecution was later instituted. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The next higher court common to all of these courts may, upon the request of a public prosecutor or the accused, make a ruling that the case is tried by a court in which prosecution was later instituted." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第三百三十九条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-339/par-1/item-5 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Code of Criminal Procedure, written 2026-11-06 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 刑事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-10-20 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000131/20261020_508AC0000000067), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Criminal Procedure (刑事訴訟法), Article 11, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Criminal Procedure — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb), retrieved 2026-11-06 - This site's parser, version 225 — 刑事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06