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. Such admittance sometimes requires a treaty between the governments of the two jurisdictions. Without a treaty, judicial assistance can also take place in an individual case on an ad hoc basis. In common law jurisdictions, if a judicial assistance treaty is not in effect, the extra-jurisdictional order may be admitted only as evidence in separate litigation covering the same matter. The doctrine therefore concerns how courts in one jurisdiction give effect to the orders and requests of courts in another, and the source describes two routes: a treaty between the governments concerned, or an ad hoc arrangement in a single case.
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Entity-backed identity for the doctrine category value this doctrine already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a doctrine entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Judicial assistance
the admittance and enforcement of a judicial order or request by a court from one jurisdiction to a court in another jurisdictionView the Source Judicial assistance (Wikipedia)
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