Remedial Law, Legal and Judicial Ethics, with Practical Exercises › Evidence › Taking of Evidence under the Hague Evidence Convention (AM 25-02-17-SC)

2. Use, Effect, and Admissibility of Evidence Taken Abroad

Difference Between Letters Rogatory and Commission

LETTERS ROGATORY	COMMISSION
Request to a FOREIGN COURT to give its aid, backed by its power, to secure desired information.	An instrument issued by a court of justice or other competent tribunal DIRECTED TO A MAGISTRATE by his official designation OR TO AN INDIVIDUAL BY NAME, authorizing him to take the depositions of the witness.
Methods of procedure are under the control of the foreign tribunal.	Taken in accordance with the rules laid down by the court issuing the commission.

(Dulay v. Dulay, G.R. No. 158857, 2005)