Salonga Center holds Legal Clinic with Cong. Josy Sy-Limkaichong

December 19, 2011 admin

As an extension for the Jovito R. Salonga Center for Law and Development advocacy program, the center’s volunteer students and teachers went on several legal clinics offered for free in several barangays of municipalities in the First District of Negros Oriental.

This legal clinic was part of the Medical Mission 2011 in consonance to the H.E.A.R.T (Health, Agriculture, Education, Road and Trade & Tourism) Program spearheaded by 1^st District Congresswoman Jocelyn Limkaichong and her Board Members. The participation of the Center is in relation to a Memorandum of Agreement between the good Congresswoman and Silliman University for a partnership on the delivery of legal services in the form of consultations and legal opinions to her constituents.

Last November 19, 2011, Salonga Center volunteers along with the center’s director, Atty. Myrish Cadapan-Antonio went to Bgry. McKinley Guinhulngan, Negros Oriental. Problems regarding procedural due process violations were raised by some private individuals in the area. Questions about land titling, and powers of the prosecution by the PNP and AFP were also pointed out in the legal clinic.

In the same manner, last November 23, the College of Law dean, Atty. M Mikhail Lee Maxino together with another batch of volunteers visited Brgy, Pinocawan Tayasan, Negros Oriental and conducted another legal clinic. Issues on land titling, cadastral surveying, property and partitions were again raised mostly by the farmer-residents of the barangay.

More recently, last December 2, 2011, Salonga Center volunteers participated in another legal clinic in Brgy, Kabulihan, Vallhermoso. As in the two previous legal clinics, concerns on land cadastral land surveying and registration were inquired upon by the residents.

As a response to these problems raised by the farmers, Congresswoman Limkaichong charged the Salonga Center legal team to draft a proposal and make recommendations on how to make cadastral surveying and land registration measures expedient and practical especially to far-flung barangays in the mountainous areas of Negros Oriental.

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