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DOJ Officials' MCLE Exemption

Undersecretaries and Assistant Secretaries of the Department of Justice are exempt from taking the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) based on the provisions of B.M. 850 from October 2001. This memorandum exempts the Secretaries and Undersecretaries of Executive Departments, as well as the Chief State Counsel, Chief State Prosecutor and Assistant Secretaries of the Department of Justice from the MCLE requirement. The pertinent rules list various other government positions that are also exempted from MCLE, such as Senators, judges, the Ombudsman and heads of government agencies with quasi-judicial functions.

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DOJ Officials' MCLE Exemption

Undersecretaries and Assistant Secretaries of the Department of Justice are exempt from taking the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) based on the provisions of B.M. 850 from October 2001. This memorandum exempts the Secretaries and Undersecretaries of Executive Departments, as well as the Chief State Counsel, Chief State Prosecutor and Assistant Secretaries of the Department of Justice from the MCLE requirement. The pertinent rules list various other government positions that are also exempted from MCLE, such as Senators, judges, the Ombudsman and heads of government agencies with quasi-judicial functions.

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Department Of Justice

FOR: EHB
DATE: 29 September 2016
FROM: Kevin Belarde and Ursulaine Grace Feliciano
RE: MCLE EXEMPTION
----------------------------------------------------------------------------Upon research, it was found that Undersecretaries as well as the
Assistant Secretaries of the Department of Justice are exempted
from taking the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education.
The pertinent provision of B.M. 850, dated October 2, 2001:
RULE 7:
SECTION 1. Parties exempted from the MCLE. -- The following
members of the Bar are exempt from the MCLE requirement:
(a) The President and the Vice President of the Philippines, and
the Secretaries and Undersecretaries of Executive
Departments;
(b) Senators and Members of the House of Representatives;
(c) The Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court,
incumbent and retired members of the judiciary, incumbent
members of the Judicial and Bar Council and incumbent court
lawyers covered by the Philippine Judicial Academy program of
continuing judicial education;
(d) The Chief State Counsel, Chief State Prosecutor and
Assistant Secretaries of the Department of Justice;
(e) The Solicitor General and the Assistant Solicitors General;
(f) The Government Corporate Counsel, Deputy and Assistant
Government Corporate Counsel;
(g) The Chairmen and Members of the Constitutional
Commissions;

(h) The Ombudsman, the Overall Deputy Ombudsman, the Deputy


Ombudsman and the Special Prosecutor of the Office of the
Ombudsman;
(i) Heads of government agencies exercising quasi-judicial
functions;
(j) Incumbent deans, bar reviewers and professors of law who
have teaching experience for at least ten (10) years in accredited
law schools;
(k) The Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and members of the Corps of
Professors and Professorial Lecturers of the Philippine Judicial
Academy; and
(l) Governors and Mayors.

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