 If the Court of Cassation does the latter, it will refer the case to a different court of assizes than were the case originated from, to be tried "de novo" (both on questions of fact and questions of law).According to the statistics provided by the College of the courts and tribunals of Belgium, a judgement was rendered in 73 assizes trials in 2016.Due to a change in Belgian law which expanded the number of cases open to correctionalisation (which allows for "crimes" to be tried by the tribunals of first instance instead of the courts of assizes), the number of judgements rendered in assizes trials dropped to 30 in 2017.