©️📷: Photo by: Senator Raffy Tulfo (Bibo Nueva Espana/Senate PRIB)
Senator Tulfo introduces legislation to provide free tuition to law students.
Tulfo introduced Senate Bill No. 1610, also known as the Free Legal Education Act of 2023, with the goal of increasing the legal profession workforce through mandatory return service.
"This measure seeks to ensure that law students have access to legal education in the SUCs while also increasing the legal profession's workforce," Tulfo explained in his explanatory note.
The inexperienced senator stated that it costs approximately P75,000 per semester to study law in private legal institutions and P24,000 to P30,000 in state universities, excluding living expenses.
Tulfo also mentioned a lack of private practice attorneys. The bar is made up of approximately 40,000 members of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, but the number of lawyers has decreased.
The figure translates to one lawyer serving approximately 2,500 people, far exceeding the ideal ratio of one lawyer for every 250 people.
Tulfo's bill will require scholars to perform mandatory return service for two years in the Public Attorney's Office or any government agency lacking lawyers in order to address the shortage.
More:
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1707042/tulfo-bill-seeks-free-tuition-for-law-students
Note:
Bills are laws in the making. They pass into law when they are approved by both houses and the President of the Philippines. A bill may be vetoed by the President, but the House of Representatives may overturn a presidential veto by garnering a 2/3rds vote. If the President does not act on a proposed law submitted by Congress, it will lapse into law after 30 days of receipt.
Below is a chart mapping the process by which a law is made:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e6F28Pavx21ZKZ1LiMzF_e5hTRlhx1el/view?usp=drivesdk
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Political book 1; Political Law
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Political book 2; Constitutional Law
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Bar Questions and Answers; UP Law Complex.
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