It is in fact in this regard that the legislator consolidates the acceleration of the judicial phase of the settlement of conflicts. The Supreme Council of the Magistracy underscores the precedency of settling conflicts in which the accused is under arrest and offenses which justify short term imprisonment sentences. 147. Furthermore, the legislator, more and more, uses the reconciliation procedure to ensure the rapidity and efficiency of the judicial apparatus. Reconciliation has become the rule in family conflicts (alimony, divorce…), disputes submitted to the local courts whose amount does not surpass 7,000 Dinars (law n° 94-59 of 23rd May 1994, amending and completing certain Articles of the Civil and Commercial Procedure Code) and the commercial disputes (law n° 95-34 of 17th April 1995 establishing the office of Companies’ Judge who is compelled to intervene in the procedures of amicable and judicial settlements). For the purpose of ensuring the rapidity and efficiency of the justice system, the office of single Judge had been established to deal with offenses of issuing of bad cheques, and of constructing without authorization. III- The principle of two tier proceedings 148. Law n° 96-38 of 3rd June 1996, relative to the distribution of competencies between the judicial courts and to the creation of a Council for competence conflicts, and the law n° 96-39 of 3rd June 1996, modifying the law n° 72-40 of 1st June 1972 relative to the administrative Court, consolidate the rights of defense by instituting the right to recourse to two-tier proceedings with the administrative Court. These two laws also sanction the bringing closer of the citizen’s administrative justice through the organization of periodic sessions in the regions and the gradual putting in place of regional Branches of the Administrative Tribunal but especially through the setting up of an Arbitration and Appeals Council between the administrative magistracy and the judicial magistracy. 149. In order to better strengthen the rights of defence, the rule of the two-tier proceedings in criminal matters had been sanctioned for the first time in Tunisia, by virtue of the law n° 2000-43 of 17th April 2000, establishing the rule of two-tier proceedings in criminal matters. This law which conforms to the Charters and International Agreements ratified by the Republic of Tunisia, is based on the following principles: - Institution of the system of two- tier proceedings at the level of criminal justice; - Upholding the system of two-ier investigation; - Upholding the composition of five magistrates in the penal chambers. IV- The prohibition of double conviction for the same offence 150. Law n° 93-114 of 22nd November 1993, amending and completing certain Articles of the Criminal Procedure Code added Article 132 (bis) which fully sanctions this principle. This Article indicates that « no acquitted person can be brought again to justice for the same offense and this, even if it is qualified differently ». V- The protection of Minors during criminal proceedings 151. Law n° 93-73 of 12th July 1993, modifying certain Articles of the Criminal Procedure Code adopted different alternative measures which were reviewed in 36