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A.M. No. 08-11-7-SC RE: REQUEST OF NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON LEGAL AID TO EXEMPT LEGAL AID CLIENTS FROM PAYING FILING, DOCKET AND OTHER FEES

November 6, 2017

FACTS: On September 23, 2008 the Misamis Oriental Chapter of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) promulgated Resolution No. 24, series of 2008. The resolution requested the IBP’s National Committee on Legal Aid (NCLA) to ask for the exemption from the payment of filing, docket and other fees of clients of the legal aid… Read More A.M. No. 08-11-7-SC RE: REQUEST OF NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON LEGAL AID TO EXEMPT LEGAL AID CLIENTS FROM PAYING FILING, DOCKET AND OTHER FEES

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A. M. No. 09-6-9-SC RE: Query of Mr. Prioreschi Re Exemption from Legal and Filing Fees of the Good Shepherd Foundation, Inc.

November 6, 2017

FACTS: In his letter dated May 22, 2009 addressed to the Chief Justice, Mr. Roger C. Prioreschi, administrator of the Good Shepherd Foundation, Inc., wrote that it be granted the same exemption from paying docket fees as that of poor litigants. ISSUE: Should an incorporated foundation (serving indigent litigants) be exempted from paying docket fees?… Read More A. M. No. 09-6-9-SC RE: Query of Mr. Prioreschi Re Exemption from Legal and Filing Fees of the Good Shepherd Foundation, Inc.