Law-ref.org THE PACIFIC SETTLEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES (2)
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... The parties are entitled to appoint special agents to attend the Commission of Inquiry, whose duty it is to represent them and to act as intermediaries between them and the Commission. ...


... Every investigation, and every examination of a locality, must be made in the presence of the agents and counsel of the parties or after they have been duly summoned. ...


... The witnesses are heard in succession and separately in the presence of the agents and counsel, and in the order fixed by the Commission. ...


... The agents and counsel of the parties may not interrupt the witness when he is making his statement, nor put any direct question to him, but they may ask the President to put such additional questions to the witness as they think expedient. ...


... The agents are authorized, in the course of or at the close of the inquiry, to present in writing to the Commission and to the other party such statements, requisitions, or summaries of the facts as they consider useful for ascertaining the truth. ...


... The Report of the Commission is read at a public sitting, the agents and counsel of the parties being present or duly summoned. ...


... The parties are entitled to appoint special agents to attend the Tribunal to act as intermediaries between themselves and the Tribunal. ...
... The Members of the Permanent Court may not act as agents, counsel, or advocates except on behalf of the Power which appointed them Members of the Court. ...


... The pleadings consist in the communication by the respective agents to the members of the Tribunal and the opposite party of cases, counter-cases, and, if necessary, of replies; the parties annex thereto all papers and documents called for in the case. This communication shall be made either directly or through the intermediary of the International Bureau, in the order and within the time fixed by the 'Compromis'. ...


... The Tribunal is free to take into consideration new papers or documents to which its attention may be drawn by the agents or counsel of the parties. ...


... The Tribunal can, besides, require from the agents of the parties the production of all papers, and can demand all necessary explanations. In case of refusal the Tribunal takes note of it. ...


... The agents and the counsel of the parties are authorized to present orally to the Tribunal all the arguments they may consider expedient in defence of their case. ...


... The members of the Tribunal are entitled to put questions to the agents and counsel of the parties, and to ask them for explanations on doubtful points. ...


... When the agents and counsel of the parties have submitted all the explanations and evidence in support of their case the President shall declare the discussion closed. ...


... The Award is read out in public sitting, the agents and counsel of the parties being present or duly summoned to attend. ...


... The Award, duly pronounced and notified to the agents of the parties, settles the dispute definitively and without appeal. ...


... Each party is represented before the Tribunal by an agent, who serves as intermediary between the Tribunal and the Government who appointed him. ...


... The proceedings are conducted exclusively in writing. Each party, however, is entitled to ask that witnesses and experts should be called. The Tribunal has, for its part, the right to demand oral explanations from the agents of the two parties, as well as from the experts and witnesses whose appearance in Court it may consider useful. ...