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10.in Re Petition To Sign in The Rol of Attorneys 706 SCRA 264 (Medado), September 24, 2013 PDF
10.in Re Petition To Sign in The Rol of Attorneys 706 SCRA 264 (Medado), September 24, 2013 PDF
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RESOLUTION
SERENO, CJ.:
We resolve the instant Petition to Sign in the Roll of
Attorneys filed by petitioner Michael A. Medado (Medado).
Medado graduated from the University of the
Philippines with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 19791
and passed the same year’s bar examinations with a
general weighted average of 82.7.2
On 7 May 1980, he took the Attorney’s Oath at the
Philippine International Convention Center (PICC)
together with the successful bar examinees.3 He was
scheduled to sign in the Roll of Attorneys on 13 May 1980,4
but he failed to do so on his scheduled date, allegedly
because he had misplaced the Notice to Sign the Roll of
Attorneys5 given by the Bar Office when he went home to
his province for a vacation.6
Several years later, while rummaging through his old
college files, Medado found the Notice to Sign the Roll of
Attorneys. It was then that he realized that he had not
signed in the roll, and that what he had signed at the
entrance of the PICC was probably just an attendance
record.7
By the time Medado found the notice, he was already
working. He stated that he was mainly doing corporate and
taxation work, and that he was not actively involved in
litigation
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1 Rollo, p. 1; Petition dated 6 February 2012.
2 Id.
3 Id., at p. 2.
4 Id.
5 Id., at p. 10.
6 Id., at p. 2.
7 Id.
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16 Rollo, p. 28; Report and Recommendation of the OBC dated 24
January 2013.
17 Id., at p. 3; Petition dated 6 February 2012.
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18 Id., at p. 22; TSN, 21 September 2012, p. 3.
19 Id., at p. 34; id., at p. 15.
20 Barcenas v. Alvero, A.C. No. 8159, 23 April 2010, 619 SCRA 1, 11.
21 Rollo, p. 35; TSN, 21 September 2012, p. 16.
22 Id., at p. 3; Petition dated 6 February 2012.
23 Wooden v. Civil Service Commission, 508 Phil. 500, 515; 471 SCRA
512, 530 (2005).
24 Manuel v. People, 512 Phil. 818, 836; 476 SCRA 461, 479 (2005).
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25 Id.
26 Aguirre v. Rana, 451 Phil. 428, 435; 403 SCRA 342, 348 (2003).
27 RULES OF COURT, Rule 71, Sec. 3(e).
28 Tan v. Balajadia, 519 Phil. 632; 484 SCRA 659 (2006).
29 Id.
30 RULES OF COURT, Rule 71, Sec. 3.
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31 See Tapay v. Bancolo, A.C. No. 9604, 20 March 2013, 694 SCRA 1;
Noe-Lacsamana v. Busmente, A.C. No. 7269, 23 November 2011, 661
SCRA 1; and Cambaliza v. Cristal-Tenorio, 478 Phil. 378; 434 SCRA 288
(2004).
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