PALE_QUIZ

TRUE OR FALSE

To be reinstated, there is no need to file an appropriate petition with the Supreme Court.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The Anchor of Discipline of the Court is the ___________.

• Supreme Court

• Integrated Bar Of The Philippines

• Sandiganbayan

• Congress

The following are exempted from the MCLE requirement, except for:

• Heads of government agencies exercising quasi- legislative functions

• Governors and mayors

• Solicitor general

• Those who are not in public law practice

Who pioneered the idea of the continuing legal education?

• Associate Justice Hilario G. Davide

• Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo

• Justice Alfredo Benjamin S. Caguioa

• Justice Amy C. Lazaro-Javier

For those who have more than four months to comply with the initial compliance period, a member shall be required to complete a number of hours of education in ___________ in proportion to the number of months remaining in the compliance period.

• Civil Procedure

• Legal Ethics

• Rules of Court

• Remedial Law

_________ is the “training school for justices, judges, court personnel, lawyers and aspirants to judicial posts.” 

• Philippine Judicial Academy

• Philippine Judicial State University

• PhilippineRepublic Judicial School

________ is an act of mercy removing any disqualification from the erring judge. It can be granted only if there is a showing that it is merited; thus, proof of reformation and a showing of potential and promise are indispensable.

• Cancellation of disbarment

• Judicial Pardon

• Judicial Clemency

• Re-admission

The following are the effects of reinstatement/readmission to the bar, except for one:

• Recognition of moral rehabilitation and mental fitness to practice law

• Lawyers shall be subject to a stricter set of law, rules, and regulations as those applicable to any other lawyer

• Lawyers must comply with the conditions imposed on his readmission

The Committee on Mandatory Continuing Legal Education is composed of the following, except for:

• Retired Justice of the Supreme Court

• IBP National President

• The Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court

• 3 other members- nominated by the Philippine Judicial Academy, UP Law Center and Association of Law Professors

Other parties exempted from the MCLE are the following, except:

• Those who suffer illness without filing a request for exemption

• Those who are not in law practice, private or public.

• Those who have retired from law practice with approval of the IBP Board of Governors