Legal & Judicial Ethics, M.P.Lacsie, 2015 pg.

Rule 7.02. A lawyer shall not support the application for admission to the bar of any person known by
him to be unqualified in respect to character, education, or other relevant attribute.
A lawyer should aid in guarding the Bar against admission to the profession of candidates unfit or unqualified for being
deficient in either moral character or education. Public policy requires that the practice of law be limited to those
individuals found duly qualified in education and character. The permissive right conferred on the lawyer is an
individual and limited privilege subject to withdrawal if he fails to maintain proper standards of moral and professional
conduct. (Canon 29, CPE)
Public may be at risk if the administration and protection of their rights falls into the hands of morally and
intellectually incompetent lawyers. This provision entails the members to safeguard the holistic role of the profession.
One, the department will only admit those qualified applicants they possess all the qualifications and none of the
disqualification prescribed by law. Two, it is the duty of a lawyer to inform the SC or the IBP of such malpractice to the
end that the malpractitioner be properly disciplined.
One who aspires to profess the law must show his fitness for admission by adherence to, or observance of, the
standards of conduct required of members of the bar. For his failure to live up to them may prevent him from being
admitted to practice, Barba v. Pedro, 61 SCRA 484 (1974), and, if admitted without the Supreme Court acquiring
knowledge of his transgressions thereof, he may be disbarred for such misconduct, Diao v. Martinez, 7 SCRA 475
(1973). Among those acts which adversely reflect on the lawyers fitness to practice law which justify suspension from
practice or disbarment include gross immorality, conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude, and fraudulent
transactions. (Ethics by Agpalo, 2009 Edition Pg. 103)