request for legal assistance

The center said it received 7,000 requests for legal assistance from students, parents and school officials.

Secondly, in the case of cross-border requests for legal assistance, we need to be clear about what interception actually means.

The five countries have insufficient staff and inadequate technical and financial resources for dealing with requests for legal assistance.

The public prosecutor's office in Augsburg, Germany, has made 60 requests for legal assistance in this connection.

Last year Russia lodged requests for legal assistance on 40 cases, Mr. Galli said.

Where contact points exist within the Judicial Network, there is good experience and results, but the network has no influence over formal requests for legal assistance.

But in an interview, Mr. Diaz said he, in fact, had initiated the request for legal assistance in mounting the lawsuit.

Requests for legal assistance were then sent to state prosecutors in Belarus, Lithuania, the Russian Federation and Israel.

On 22 January 2006, the Italian Foreign Minister forwarded to the US authorities a request for legal assistance.

Mr. Turover said he was interrogated by Mrs. del Ponte before the Russians made their request for legal assistance.

The European Commission is sometimes late in responding to requests for legal assistance from SOLVIT staff, which leads to certain delays in the whole process of resolving cases.

An electronic network linking the group's members is planned for 2004, and each one will assign a prosecutor to handle "real-time requests for legal assistance" in organized crime cases, Mr. Kligerman said.

The site began primarily as a place to post pen-pal profiles and requests for legal assistance for inmates and has evolved to take a more comprehensive approach to addressing the life of an inmate.

The new American requests for legal assistance also name a Geneva accounting concern, Compagnie de Services Fiduciaires, whose director, Willar I. Zucker, had already been named in a previous request.

According to the Prosecutor General Office of Lithuania, during the entire period of investigation of the case, 94 requests for legal assistance were sent to Russia, Belarus, and Germany but received only negative responses.

As such, any request for legal assistance concerning a hypothetical action which is not a crime in the petitioned Member State contravenes this principle of legality and thus the fundamental principles of justice in the petitioned Member State.

Until the EU' s criminal law systems are harmonised - something which is to be desired - judicial cooperation will continue to operate through a complex and antiquated system of requests for legal assistance, an emotive term for almost all public prosecutors and judges.