The tribunal has yet to determine whether foreign lawyers may even appear to plead before it.
At present, foreign lawyers are barred from representing clients in Cambodian courts of law.
But there is one determined outlier among fast-growing Asian economies: India, the only big country that is closed to foreign lawyers in any capacity.
In my own industry, legal services, there were only a handful of foreign lawyers working for Chinese law firms back when I arrived in China in 1998.
However, Foreign Office lawyers said "it does not operate a legal aid scheme to cover legal expenses for British nationals involved in criminal proceedings abroad, nor does it provide funds in exceptional cases".
Last week he even indicated that foreign judges and lawyers could play a limited role in the trial of former Khmer Rouge general Ta Mok--still the most public stumbling block on Phnom Penh's road to international legitimacy.
Those U.S.-educated Chinese trade lawyers who work for foreign law firms based in China can be considered "Chinese legal capacity" too, said Wang.
Concerned about the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the far-reaching law that criminalizes improper payments to foreign officials, the company hires lawyers and accountants with great expertise in the region.
U.S. and U.K. authorities have stepped up enforcement of bribery in foreign business dealings, which may herald a longer-term shift in how foreign companies operate in the Gulf, lawyers say.
Even if the foreign firms win their court case, the Indian lawyers are likely to appeal.
But perhaps most importantly, China has now changed, says Jesse Chang of TransAsia Lawyers, a law firm that advises foreign firms.
Each year the newspaper approaches the legal affairs departments of companies and major law firms, including foreign firms, with a request to vote for two lawyers in each of certain practice areas whose performances during the year have made particularly important contributions to producing successes.
Since 2005, foreign firms have been able to set up partnerships employing Japanese lawyers, who (in contrast with Singapore) need not give up their national licence.
The Americanization of Global law is also leading to a huge increase in foreign companies seeking to have their disputes resolved by using American lawyers or even bringing lawsuits in American courts.
Meanwhile, following claims that Britain has been complicit in the treatment of Mr Mohamed, the Foreign Office has said it cannot hand over information to defence lawyers, which might relate to intelligence operations.
The one big change that lawyers think might be achievable without referendums is creating a foreign minister, which could be done by inter-governmental agreement.
The one big change that lawyers think might be achievable without referendums is creating an EU foreign minister, which could be done by inter-governmental agreement.
She added that foreign investment into London pays for a large number of jobs, from lawyers to cleaners, and should not be discouraged when the economy needs it the most.
The 1789 law was barely used until the 1980s, when enterprising lawyers dusted it off to sue corporations over human-rights abuses in foreign countries.
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Beijing's main goal is to win, so it has hired seasoned foreign law firms to handle its major WTO cases thus far, and used Chinese lawyers to assist them, lawyers and scholars say.
Justice Department lawyers argued this program was part of the government's need to gather foreign intelligence, which does not explicitly require agents to go through the process of getting a warrant, as is required under the FISA law.
Now company lawyers have targets on their backs, given accounting requirements under Sarbanes-Oxley, foreign bribery and other corporate skullduggery.
He was one of the lawyers for 79 year-old Mary Estelle Curran of Palm Beach, who had foreign account troubles.
The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office says that it can put women like them in touch with charities and lawyers in the UK and Pakistan, but it cannot offer consular assistance to people who are not British nationals.
If Justice Department lawyers agree to a weak settlement, the burden of rebuilding from this disaster will be transferred from a foreign corporation to American taxpayers.
The taxman always has an eye for the fine print and lawyers pointed out that Article 39(1)of the 1961 Convention obliges the mission to notify the Foreign Office of the appointment of a member of its staff.
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