- FINDING COMPETENT COURTS/AUTHORITIES
- Article 2 – Requested courts
- Article 3 – Central body
- Article 5 – Languages accepted for completion of the forms
- Article 6 – Means accepted for transmission of requests and other communications
- Article 17 – Central body or competent authority(ies) responsible for decisions on requests for direct taking of evidence
- Article 21 – Agreements or arrangements to which Member States are parties and which comply with the conditions in Article 21(2)
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FINDING COMPETENT COURTS/AUTHORITIES
The search tool below will help you to identify court(s)/authority(ies) competent for a specific European legal instrument. Please note that although every effort has been made to ascertain the accuracy of the results, there may be some exceptional cases concerning the determination of competence that are not necessarily covered.
Article 2 – Requested courts
Taking of Evidence 'Requested Court'
The Supreme Court of Gibraltar
277 Main Street
Gibraltar
Tel: +350 200 75608
Article 3 – Central body
All formal communications should be addressed to:
HM Attorney General of Gibraltar
c/o Office of Criminal Prosecutions & Litigation
Jossua Hassan House
Gibraltar
Tel.: + 350 78882
Fax: + 350 79891
Then sent via:
The United Kingdom Government Gibraltar Liaison Unit for EU Affairs
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
European Union (Mediterranean)
King Charles Street
London
SW1A 2AH
Tel.: + 44 20 7008 2862
Fax: + 44.20 7008 3629 or + 44 20 7008 8259
Article 5 – Languages accepted for completion of the forms
English and French.
Article 6 – Means accepted for transmission of requests and other communications
Please note that the following languages: have already been translated.
Requests must be by post via the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London following the procedure detailed in the information already provided.
Article 17 – Central body or competent authority(ies) responsible for decisions on requests for direct taking of evidence
All formal communications should be addressed to:
HM Attorney General of Gibraltar
c/o Office of Criminal Prosecutions & Litigation
Jossua Hassan House
Gibraltar
Tel.: + 350 78882
Fax: + 350 79891
Then sent via:
The United Kingdom Government Gibraltar Liaison Unit for EU Affairs
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
European Union (Mediterranean)
King Charles Street
London
SW1A 2AH
Tel.: + 44 20 7008 2862
Fax: + 44.20 7008 3629 or + 44 20 7008 8259
Article 21 – Agreements or arrangements to which Member States are parties and which comply with the conditions in Article 21(2)
The United Kingdom does not intend to retain any bilateral agreements with other Member States for taking of evidence between the United Kingdom and the other Member States. It has, however, informed Member States with which it has bilateral agreements that it wants these agreements to continue to apply for cases between those Member States and the United Kingdom Overseas Territories that are not part of the European Union.
The countries with which the United Kingdom has bilateral agreements and the date of those agreements are as follows:
Austria 31/03/31 Greece 07/02/36
Belgium 21/06/22 Italy 17/12/30
Denmark 29/11/32 Netherlands 31/05/32
Finland 11/08/33 Portugal 09/07/31
France 02/02/22 Spain 27/06/29
Germany 20/03/28 Sweden 28/08/30
The United Kingdom Overseas Territories outside the European Union to which these bilateral agreements will continue to apply are:
Channel Islands
Isle of Man
Anguilla
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands
Falkland Islands & Dependencies
Montserrat
Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri & Dhekelia (Cyprus)
St Helena & Dependencies
Turks & Caicos Islands
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