The Court granted the Attorney General's application under s 33 of the Evidence on Commission Act 1995 (NSW) to examine a witness in NSW pursuant to a letter of request from the 14th Family Court of Izmir, Turkiye, issued under the Hague Evidence Convention. The Court confirmed the three prerequisites under s 32 were met — a request from a foreign court, evidence sought for the purposes of instituted civil proceedings, and no offence-related proceedings — and exercised its discretion in favour of making the order, applying the principle that comity requires letters of request to be given effect to the fullest extent possible.
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