French term
Tunisia
High Quality translation
Native in: Arabic (Variants: Tunisian, Egyptian) 
, French
Works in: English to French, English to Arabic, French to Arabic, and 6 more.
avoir connaissance de la procédure
| 3 +3 | (un)familiar with the procedure/proceedings |
Timothy Rake
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| 4 +1 | have notice of the proceedings |
Adrian MM.
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| 3 | in cognisance/cognizance of the procedure |
David Hollywood
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Jun 2, 2022 14:47: AllegroTrans changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Non-PRO (3): philgoddard, Angus Stewart, AllegroTrans
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Proposed translations
United States
My business is translating your business
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, English to French
(un)familiar with the procedure/proceedings
| Good morning! It's a divorce. La défenderesse n'ayant pas eu connaissance de la procédure |
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Lara Barnett
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Thanks Lara
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philgoddard
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Thanks Phil
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Anastasia Kalantzi
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Thanks Anastasia
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AllegroTrans
: insufficient context to be sure of anything, there are other possible meanings and it looks like we are wasting our time
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Don’t disagree with you, as I noted in my response “more context would certainly help,””
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Daryo
: with so little context, there is no point suggesting anything. Knowing when "there is no answer" is the right answer is part of a good method for problem solving.
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worked for int. orgs (IMF, OAS, IDB)
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, German to English
in cognisance/cognizance of the procedure
Cognizance is awareness or knowledge of something. The word cognizance is typically used in a formal way. The word awareness means the same thing but is used more broadly. The adjective form of cognizance is cognizant.
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so in your context: failing cognisance/cognisanze
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in absence of etc.
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AllegroTrans
: insufficient context to be sure of anything
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Daryo
: I would also check first in specialised legal ressources how exactly "cognisance" is used / in what meaning// https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Cognisance HOW do you think this could possibly fit in a divorce case??
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Austria
Retd.T&I, Barrister & Austro-Advokat
Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish)
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, French to English, and 5 more.
have notice of the proceedings
Without any more context, as called for in a discussion entry, though 'an application to set aside a default civil judgment', rather than any criminal conviction and/or sentence, is the likelier scenario.
Note to those who have never studied and are unfamiliar with civil or criminial procedure / litigation or with res judicata aka issue estoppel in the law of evidence https://www.proz.com/siterules/general/2#2 and https://www.proz.com/siterules/kudoz_answ/3.7#3.7
IATE: fr connaissance de droit CdT en constructive notice CdT notice in law CdT
provides for notice of proceedings, the respondent did not have proper notice of the proceedings and an opportunity [...] to be heard
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Jennifer Levey
: Most likely interpretation, given the minimal context we have so far.
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AllegroTrans
: I also agree it's the most likely meaning, but there is no way to be sure unless asker condescends to post the full sentence and it noiw seems she has either lost interest or simply won't tell us more
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Daryo
: yes, it's the most likely, but I have seen cases of far more "obvious" translations turning out to be completely wrong once more context became available.
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Discussion
To the already suggested answers, I see at least one more that could make perfect sense:
"having not been made aware of (the existence of) these proceedings" (or maybe some very specific "procedure"??)
where "the unaware party" could be anyone - one of the spouses, some witness, any expert / lawyer involved or just about any third party...
With a bit of imagination, one could dream up few more very plausible alternatives. Plausible on their own, but maybe nonsensical in your text.
Whole sentence?