Mutual legal assistance

mutual legal assistance.

mutual legal assistance

judicial assistance

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Mutual judicial assistance

Requests for mutual legal assistance

(vii) Mutual legal assistance (article 18)

(viii) Mutual legal assistance (article 18)

(a) International legal assistance

2. Such mutual legal assistance shall be subject to the conditions provided for by the domestic law of the requested State Party or by applicable treaties on mutual legal assistance, including, in particular, the conditions in relation to the grounds upon which the requested State Party may refuse to grant mutual legal assistance or may make it subject to conditions.

15. A request for mutual legal assistance shall contain

Mutual legal assistance (art. 18, para.

International Assistance Group, Justice Canada

Mutual legal assistance (art. 18, para.

WORKING GROUP ON INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE

approving the Treaties between China and Ethiopia on Civil and Commercial Judicial Assistance, and

23. Reasons shall be given for any refusal of mutual legal assistance.

Ms. Helanya Grigić, Head of Sector for Mutual Legal Assistance

Juan Emilio Oviedo Cabañas, lawyer

(iii) Inclusion of the crime of money laundering in mutual legal assistance agreements for the purpose of ensuring judicial assistance in investigations, court cases or judicial proceedings relating to that crime

Directorate for International Legal Assistance, Cooperation and Human Rights

Lic. Miguel Nava Alvarado, Director General of Extradition and Judicial Assistance

38. Further decides that the Internal Justice Council shall be assisted, as appropriate, by the Office of Administration of Justice

To that end, States should facilitate extradition or surrender offenders to other States, or appropriate international judicial bodies and provide judicial assistance and other forms of cooperation in the pursuit of international justice, including assistance to, and protection of, victims and witnesses.

91. First, there is the instruction given by the Ministry of Justice to the courts to refrain from having recourse to the police to get its decisions implemented, unless it is done through the Ministry of Justice, which will in turn apply for the purpose to the Ministry of Defence.

The General Legal Division assists the Legal Counsel in organizing and hosting the meetings.

Report of the informal working group on mutual legal assistance

This applies to both judicial assistance and seizure confiscation.

Globally, three quarters (74 per cent) of all States had entered into bilateral agreements and two thirds (67 per cent) had entered into multilateral agreements in relation to mutual legal assistance.

At the request of one delegation, the Chairperson agreed to the use of the phrase legal assistance rather than judicial assistance .

Sweden stated that the central authority in Sweden competent to receive requests for mutual assistance was the Ministry of Justice

21. Mutual legal assistance may be refused

23. Reasons shall be given for any refusal of mutual legal assistance.

Central Authority for Mutual Legal Assistance on Criminal Matters

Such judicial assistance shall be subject to the conditions provided for by the domestic law of the requested State Party or by applicable treaties on mutual judicial assistance, including, inter alia, the conditions in relation to the grounds upon which the requested State Party may refuse to grant judicial assistance or may make it subject to conditions.

South Africa stated that the Director General of the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development had been designated the central authority to receive requests for mutual legal assistance

Poland stated that the Ministry of Justice had been designated the central authority competent to receive requests for mutual legal assistance

Most States (74 per cent, compared with 70 per cent for the 2000 2002 period) had entered into bilateral legal assistance agreements and many had entered into multilateral legal assistance agreements (67 per cent, compared with 60 per cent two years earlier).

Cooperation with the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Division of the Secretariat and the network of collaborative institutions of the Division included assistance in the formulation and sponsorship of a project related to criminal justice.

China stated that requests for legal assistance to the Macao SAR would only be accepted by the Macao SAR in Chinese or Portuguese.

15. A request for mutual legal assistance shall contain

Mr. Dinko Kovrčević, Head of Department for Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters

Estonia stated that it had designated the Ministry of Justice the central authority to receive the requests for mutual legal assistance