Foot and Fire

Behind me is Bacolod City's New Government Center. *** On my ninth year as a poor-man's lawyer, I fancy a scenario that the senate will call on me to testify in aid of legislation. Well, they often do that, don't they? So to prepare for the ocassion, I listed some important points that I believe I should throw at our senators when the time comes. If ever it won't come, I can gladly forward it at once to them. 1. Allotment for support from OFWs should be compulsory. Contracts with foreign employers should contain provision on sending the required allotment to the legal family and/or illegitimate children who have court order of support or even just a notarized agreement on support. POEA and OWWA should be given the enforcement roles on this aspect. 2. An accused in jail for more than 5 years should be given compensation regardless of the exceptions in the speedy trial law. This will alert the prosecution as to their roles in securing their witnesses an...

Not that I really expected to take this small book seriously from first read up to last, I was just so amused as well as too embarrassed to know more about how lawyers behaved or displayed their strategy in court hearings in the past and to feel ridiculous to discover that in the history of lawyering, someone has to defend a sow and a mouse among others! This and more serious stories from this little big book of trials!