Several problems occurred with regard to the venue of the hearings in trial of Benito Tiamzon and his wife Wilma Austria. Denying lawyers entrance to a location which causes impossibility to defend clients an the intimidation which an environment tends to create is in violates the UN Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers. The couple has written a motion to the high tribunal and invoked Articles 16 and 19 of the UN Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers.