A. LEGISLATION, TRENDS AND TENDENCIES
A.1 Legislation
The Legal Profession Act 1976 (LPA) was recently amended to
expressly allow foreign arbitrators and counsel to appear in
international arbitration in Malaysia.2 The amendment received
royal assent on 25 October 2013.3 The prevailing position prior
to the amendment to the LPA, while already liberalized in
practice, was based only on case law4 and an arbitration-friendly
Malaysian Bar.5