7.3 Hague Evidence Convention (1970)

The civil MLA's instrument: the Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters — the mechanisms: the Letter of Request (the judicial authority's commission to the foreign authority — the central route); the diplomatic officers-and-consular agents' taking (the nationals' examination abroad — the limited route); the commissioners' appointment (the special faces). The principles: the lex loci of the execution (the requested state's procedure); the compulsory-measures' restriction (the Convention's procedures only); the refusal's grounds (the sovereignty, the security). The Nepal position: Nepal is not a party (the Hague instruments' selective participation — the Convention's machinery available only through the bilateral-and- reciprocity routes of the Act 2070 — the honest note).