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2014-12-10 |
MENDOZA, J. |
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| Membership in the legal profession is bestowed upon individuals who are not only learned in law, but also known to possess good moral character. Lawyers should act and comport themselves with honesty and integrity in a manner beyond reproach, in order to promote the public's faith in the legal profession.[19] "To say that lawyers must at all times uphold and respect the law is to state the obvious, but such statement can never be overemphasized. Considering that, of all classes and professions, [lawyers are] most sacredly bound to uphold the law, it is imperative that they live by the law."[20] | |||||
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2004-10-14 |
QUISUMBING, J. |
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| WHEREFORE, for violating Public Act No. 2103, Section 1(a) and the Code of Professional Responsibility, respondent Atty. Napoleon Corral's notarial commission, if still extant, is INDEFINITELY SUSPENDED.[19] | |||||
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2004-03-10 |
PER CURIAM |
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| Indeed, the primary objective of administrative cases against lawyers is not only to punish and discipline the erring individual lawyers, but also to safeguard the administration of justice by protecting the courts and the public from the misconduct of lawyers and to remove from the legal profession persons whose utter disregard of the lawyer's oath has proven them unfit to continue discharging the trust reposed in them as members of the bar.[23] These pronouncements gain practical significance in this case, considering that respondent is a senior lawyer of the NLRC. It bears stressing also that government lawyers who are public servants owe fidelity to the public service, a public trust. As such, government lawyers should be more sensitive to their professional obligations as their disreputable conduct is more likely to be magnified in the public eye.[24] | |||||
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2003-03-20 |
BELLOSILLO, J. |
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| Finally, Rivera v. Corral[25] reiterates the purpose of administrative cases against lawyers in this manner - | |||||