CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Privileges
......Assertion of Privilege
.........Assertion By Court
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If person from whom information sought was not person entitled to claim privilege and person who was entitled to do so was not before court, court required to invoke on own motion.

Trial court required to invoke consular privilege on behalf of absent holder (Mexico), as established by Vienna Convention, because Mexican government not party to action and did not assert.

Trial court required to assert privilege on behalf of V to disclosure of psychological records.

Trial court required to invoke privilege and exclude from discovery order officers' psychological records indicating propensity for violence, ethnic bias or prejudice.