JP\/5\/MANDALA<\/p>\n
Foreign lawyer operations condemned<\/p>\n
Apriadi Gunawan
\nThe Jakarta Post\/Medan<\/p>\n
A Medan lawyers' association is planning to file a report with
\nthe government on the operation of foreign lawyers in the city.
\n Having operated in the city, the foreign lawyers representing
\nthe families of Mandala plane crash victims have violated
\nIndonesian law and therefore, must be deported, said deputy
\nsecretary-general of the Indonesian Advocates Foundation (Peradi)
\nAbdul Rahim Hasibuan.<\/p>\n
\"We will file a report soon with the Medan immigration office,
\nasking them to deport the foreign lawyers for their failure to
\napply to the Indonesian government for operational licenses,\"
\nsaid Hasibuan.<\/p>\n
According to Hasibuan, foreign lawyers are required by a law
\nissued in 2004 to apply for an operational license from the
\nMinistry of Justice and Human Rights. Hasibuan would not disclose
\nthe names of lawyers who were practicing legal consultancy here
\nwithout licenses, saying such a disclosure would be unethical.<\/p>\n
Foreign law firms operating in Medan include the Nolan Law
\nOffice; Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann and Bernstein Law Office, and
\nSpeiser Krause and Engstrom Lipscomb, all of which are based in
\nthe United States.<\/p>\n
Responding to the charge, Robert Nelson, a lawyer with Lieff,
\nCabraser, Heimann and Bernstein said the firm had earlier forged
\nan alliance with local lawyers in working on the case.<\/p>\n
Due to their cooperation with local lawyers, the foreign firms
\nhad not violated the law, Nelson said.<\/p>\n
One hundred and two passengers were killed in the Mandala
\ncrash on Sept. 5, as well as 47 people on the ground. It was the
\nyear's worst plane crash.<\/p>",
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