"Taylor has asked me to give him all the assistance necessary under the circumstances," the lawyer, Michail Wladimiroff, said.
He added that the request was made recently but would not elaborate.
Taylor was indicted in June by the UN Special Court in Sierra Leone for crimes against humanity and war crimes during the decade-long civil war in Liberia's northwestern neighbour, in which some 250 000 people lost their lives.
Taylor is also under UN sanctions, including an arms embargo, for his perceived role in that war and alleged links to the trade in so-called "blood diamonds" mined by the Sierra Leonean rebels.
Wladimiroff was one of three lawyers appointed to assist judges at the UN war crimes court in The Hague with the trial of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugolavia (ICTY) court sacked him last October after he told a local newspaper that Milosevic would be found guilty if the trial ended right away. – Sapa-AFP.
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