Code of Organization and Civil Procedure (Cap. 12), article 25

25. Saving the proviso to article 15, suitors as well as advocates, legal procurators and all other persons acting in the name and on behalf of such suitors, are, under the penalties laid down in article 997, forbidden to make any private application to the judges or to the magistrates in regard to matters pending or to be brought before any of the courts of justice. Mode of applying to court for any order.