RESTRICTIONS IN THE PRACTICE OF LAW OF RETIRED JUSTICE/JUDGE

As a condition of the pension provided under R.A. 910, no retiring justice or judge
of a court of record or city or municipality judge during the time that he is
receiving said pension shall:
Appear as counsel before any court in:
a. Any civil case wherein the government or any subdivision or instrumentality
thereof is the adverse party;
b. Any criminal case wherein an officer or an employee of the government is
accused of an offense committed in relation to his office.
2. Collect any fees for his appearance in any administrative proceedings to
maintain an interest adverse to the government, provincial or municipal, or to any
of its legally constituted officers [Sec 1, RA 910].

REMEDIES AGAINST UNAUTHORIZED PRACTICE (DICED)

1. Petition for Injunction
2. Declaratory Relief
3. Contempt of Court
4. Disqualification and complaints for disbarment
5. Criminal complaint for estafa against a person who falsely represented to be
an attorney to the damage of a party

PRIVILEGES AND DUTIES OF A LAWYER

PRIVILEGES OF AN ATTORNEY:
1. To practice law during good behavior before any judicial, quasi-judicial, or
administrative tribunal.
2. The first one to sit in judgment on every case, to set the judicial machinery
in motion.
3. Enjoys the presumption of regularity in the discharge of his duty.
4. He is immune, in the performance of his obligation to his client, from
liability to a third person insofar as he does not materially depart from his
character as a quasi-judicial officer.
5. His statements, if relevant, pertinent or material to the subject of judicial
inquiry are absolutely privileged regardless of their defamatory tenor and of the
presence of malice.