Judicial Assistance is the admittance and enforcement of a judicial order or request by a court from one jurisdiction to a court in another jurisdiction.
[1] Such admittance sometimes requires a treaty between the governments of the two jurisdictions.
[2] Without a treaty, judicial assistance can also take place in individual case on an ad hoc basis.
In common law jurisdictions, if a judicial assistance treaty is not in effect then the extra-jurisdictional order may be only admitted as evidence in separate litigation covering the same matter.
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