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LIMIT ON ATTORNEY NUMBERS DOES NOT INCLUDE SUBSTI-TUTE AGENTS
Article 49 of the Code of Administrative Pro-cedure provides that party may appoint an agent ad litem to conduct litigation; but each party may appoint no more than three such agents ad litem. The Taipei High Administrative Court has taken differing views in the past as to whether "no more than three" includes substitute agents en-gaged by agents ad litem. In its judgment in a 2002 case, the Supreme Administrative Court held that the limit imposed by Article 49 Para-graph 1 of the code is not breached as long as the number of agents ad litem directly appointed by a party does not exceed three. However, the above judgment does not establish a precedent, so it remains to be seen whether other judges of the Court will take the same view.
Article 32 of the Law of Administrative Appeal, and Article 24 Paragraph 2 of the Law of Ad-ministrative Proceedings, also limit the number of agents to three. It remains to be seen whether these provisions can also be interpreted in the same way as Article 49 of the Code of Admin-istrative Procedure.