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Atty. Nesario Awat, IBP chapter vice president and legal aid director, said their members have already confirmed their respective schedules of tendering legal consultation at the IBP office in Capitol Complex, this city.
?A number of clients have availed of the free legal consultation during its launching and we decided to do the free consultation every Friday afternoon. We found this program to be very beneficial especially for those who cannot afford to pay this kind of legal service,? Awat said.
The free legal assistance is provided in the Rule on Mandatory Legal Aid Service which the Supreme Court has approved last February 10 aimed at enhancing ?the duty of lawyers to society as agents of social change and to the courts as officers thereof by helping improve access to justice by the less privileged members of society and expedite the resolution of cases involving them.?
Under the Rule, a practicing lawyer, among others, shall coordinate with the Clerk of Court or the Legal Aid Chairperson of one?s Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Chapter for cases where the lawyer may render free legal aid service. The 60 hours shall be spread within a period of 12 months, with a minimum of five hours of free legal aid services each month. A practicing lawyer shall also be required to secure and obtain a certificate from the Clerk of Court attesting to the number of hours spent rendering free legal aid services in a case.
At the end of every calendar year, any practicing lawyer who fails to meet the minimum prescribed 60 hours of legal aid service each year shall be required by the IBP, through the National Committee on Legal Aid (NCLA), to explain why the lawyer was unable to render the minimum prescribed hours. The NCLA shall make a report and recommendation to declare a lawyer ?not in good standing? if a lawyer fails to give an explanation for said failure or the NCLA finds the explanation unsatisfactory.
IBP-Palawan chapter is among the first local chapters which complied with the Supreme Court?s memorandum.
It is also one of the country?s active lawyers? group. In fact, it has been in the forefront of historic legal tussles recently.
?We were the only group that opposed the proposed territorial baseline of the country declaring Kalayaan Island Group and Scarborough Shoal as mere regime of islands,? Atty. Gerardo S. Dilig, newly elected chapter president said.
Kalayaan Island is the 23rd municipality of Palawan.
The lawyers? group also spearheaded the conduct of public rallies in Puerto Princesa and in the towns at Southern Palawan where it opposed the inclusion of Balabac and Bataraza in the Bangsa Moro Juridical Entity as provided in the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain signed between the national government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front last year.
Consequently, member-lawyers filed a petition at the Supreme Court which questioned the constitutionality of the MOA-AD.
Dilig?s group also represented Palawan during the oral argument at the Supreme Court defending the province?s rightful revenue claim from the Malampaya Deep-Water-Gas-to-Power Project.
Dilig replaced Atty. Carlo Gomez as president of local IBP.
Other new officers are Atty. Francia Bueno-Secretary, Atty. Liezel Zabanal-Treasurer, Atty. Philip Ray Nangkil-Auditor, and Atty. Joselito Alisuag-PRO.
Members of the board of directors are Atty. Gomez, Judge Felomino Vergara (Ret), Atty. Allan Carlos, Atty. Elena Vergara-Rodriguez and Atty. Leah Delos Reyes-Baguyo.
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