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I ranted about the inefficiency of the Philippine Justice system in a post I wrote 2 years ago entitled “Inefficiency, the mother of all injustice.” Now, I have something to write again about the sad state of the Philippine Justice system.

Five days ago, I posted the article which I submitted to the IBP Cebu City chapter entitled “A better alternative to Bar Matter 2012.”  This concerns the Mandatory Legal Service imposed upon lawyers by the Philippine  Supreme Court.  I honestly don’t know what the position of the other lawyers are on this since I was [...]

Last Tuesday, April 21, 2009, being one of the faculty members of the Southwestern University School of Law in Cebu City Philippines, I was tasked by our Dean, Atty. Godwin Denzel Manginsay, to attend the Cebu City IBP forum on Bar Matter 2012.

I’ve received an email from my mentor and good friend Prof. Manuel Riguera, that the first edition, Volume 1 – Civil Procedure of his “Primer-reviewer on Remedial law” is now available in all Central Bookstores nationwide.

At last, bar candidates can breathe a sigh of relief as the 2008 Philippine Bar exam results is finally out. The Philippine bar exams is said to be the hardest and the longest exam in the country. Candidates are subjected to a grueling 32 hours, 4 Sundays of all essay type questions. The exam is [...]

Finally, I have managed to make an ad for Jurists Bar Review Center and uploaded it in youtube. I lost the pictures I managed to take in last year’s Jurists Bar Review Cebu, so I had difficulty in creating a flashy ad without pictures.

I’ve recently learned that my very good friend and mentor, Professor Abelardo Domondon is giving a free lecture on Bar exam review methods.  The following are the details of the free lectures.

Guerilla Blogger was grilled in a Philippine senate inquiry for implementing subversive and contrarian methods in blogging including the illegal use of guerilla blogging strategy and tactics.

Jurists Bar review center Cebu is once again opening up its door and a bringing quality, affordable and unique bar review experience to reviewees from the Visayas and the Mindanao area.

Whew !!! Finally I finished another ebook project entitled “A Dunce guide to writing legal forms in the Philippine bar exams” This short but very useful 15 page ebook for law students and bar exam candidates is now ready for download. The good news about this is that I AM GIVING IT AWAY ABSOLUTELY FREE [...]

I stumbled across an interesting topic in the Southwestern University (SWU) Cebu City Philippines, School of Law alumni association friendster group. The topic in the discussion board I am referring to is the one which reads “2007 Bar exam Passers are BOGUS lawyers.”

Having practiced law for more than 1 year now, I bemoan the fact that the wheels of justice in this country (The Philippines) is just too slow. Practicing law here is very discouraging. The primary reason for this is of course because of the big “C” (Corruption) which is also the problem of most government [...]