Book contents
- The Role of Lawyers in Access to Justice
- The Role of Lawyers in Access to Justice
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Appendices
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Understanding and Comparing Access to Justice
- Part I Access to Justice in Asia
- 2 Pro Bono, Legal Aid, and the Struggle for Justice in China
- 3 Access to Justice in India: Managing Multiple Mechanisms in a Restrictive Practice Environment
- 4 Access to Justice in Indonesia: Searching for Meaning
- 5 Access to Justice and Lawyer Independence in Japan
- 6 Improving Access to Justice in Malaysia: Introspection, Purpose, and Dynamism
- 7 Political Lawyers and the Legal Occupation in Myanmar
- 8 Alternative Lawyering versus Pro Bono in the Philippines: From Challenging an Authoritarian Government to Working with the State
- 9 Access to Justice in Singapore: A Government and Lawyer Dynamic
- 10 Public Interest Lawyering in South Korea: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
- 11 A Hub, a Knot, and a Powerhouse: The Legal Aid Foundation and Access to Justice in Taiwan
- 12 Lawyers and Democratic Centralism in Vietnam
- Part II Comparative Perspectives on Access to Justice
- Index
8 - Alternative Lawyering versus Pro Bono in the Philippines: From Challenging an Authoritarian Government to Working with the State
from Part I - Access to Justice in Asia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 September 2022
- The Role of Lawyers in Access to Justice
- The Role of Lawyers in Access to Justice
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Appendices
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Understanding and Comparing Access to Justice
- Part I Access to Justice in Asia
- 2 Pro Bono, Legal Aid, and the Struggle for Justice in China
- 3 Access to Justice in India: Managing Multiple Mechanisms in a Restrictive Practice Environment
- 4 Access to Justice in Indonesia: Searching for Meaning
- 5 Access to Justice and Lawyer Independence in Japan
- 6 Improving Access to Justice in Malaysia: Introspection, Purpose, and Dynamism
- 7 Political Lawyers and the Legal Occupation in Myanmar
- 8 Alternative Lawyering versus Pro Bono in the Philippines: From Challenging an Authoritarian Government to Working with the State
- 9 Access to Justice in Singapore: A Government and Lawyer Dynamic
- 10 Public Interest Lawyering in South Korea: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
- 11 A Hub, a Knot, and a Powerhouse: The Legal Aid Foundation and Access to Justice in Taiwan
- 12 Lawyers and Democratic Centralism in Vietnam
- Part II Comparative Perspectives on Access to Justice
- Index
Summary
The Philippines currently has an impressive set of guidelines and regulations concerning pro bono service, including a 60-hour annual service requirement for all licensed attorneys, and a 100-hour service requirement for all new attorneys. Although the government implemented pro bono requirements as a means to address ongoing problems with public access to justice, the state is plagued by the historical understanding that it is an elite institution that only uses the law to disenfranchise, exploit, and disempower citizens. Historically, a number of public interest law non-governmental organizations (‘NGOs’) emerged to address the access to justice issue and to challenge the state. Over time some of these left-leaning NGOs were taken over by younger attorneys born after martial law, who began working with the state. The question in the Philippines is whether this blurring of NGO alternative lawyering and state-led pro bono lawyering will continue and produce a new access to justice identity for lawyers as well as the state. The chapter argues that over time, the lawyers that provided free legal services went from providing such services for the purpose of addressing crimes by the state, to eventually working with the state as a result of pro bono service requirements.
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- The Role of Lawyers in Access to JusticeAsian and Comparative Perspectives, pp. 145 - 161Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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