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Report On Providing Efficient and Legal Services
Report On Providing Efficient and Legal Services
and Convenient
Legal Services
Miguel Pillas
Group 2
CANON 2
Rule 2.01
Rule 138
Practicing lawyers - Members of the Philippine Bar who appear for and in
behalf of parties in courts of law and quasi-judicial agencies, including but
not limited to the National Labor Relations Commission, National
Conciliation and Mediation Board, Department of Labor and Employment
Regional Offices, Department of Agrarian Reform Adjudication Board and
National Commission for Indigenous Peoples.
Excluded:
(i) Government employees and incumbent elective officials not allowed by law
to practice;
(iv) Lawyers not covered under subparagraphs (i) to (iii) including those who
are employed in the private sector but do not appear for and in behalf of
parties in courts of law and quasi-judicial agencies.
Indigent litigants:
(a) whose gross income and that of their immediate family do not
exceed four thousand (P4,000.00) pesos a month if residing in
Metro Manila, and three thousand (P3,000.00) pesos a month if
residing outside Metro Manila, and
(b) who do not own real property with an assessed value of more
than fifty thousand (P50,000.00) pesos shall be exempt from the
payment of legal fees.
RA 9999
Requirements
The certification issued by, among others, the PAO, the DOJ and other
accredited association by the Supreme Court shall be submitted to
the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) for purposes of availing the tax
deductions as provided for in this Act and to the DOJ for purposes of
monitoring.
Incentives