Bar Review Pointers

BAR REVIEW POINTERS 8.
Special Penal laws

a. Anti-Fencing Law
b. Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act
LABOR LAW c. Anti-Hazing Act
1. Strikes – grounds; procedural requirements d. AMLA
2. Lockouts – grounds; mandatory procedural requirements e. Anti-Plunder Act
3. Subcontracting vs labor-only contracting f. Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act
4. Termination by employer – just causes; authorized causes; g. New Anti-Carnapping Act
reliefs from illegal dismissal h. R.A. No. 7610 – Sections 3(a), 5, and 10
5. Limitations on management prerogative i. Swindling by Syndicate
6. Jurisdiction and reliefs 9. Practical Exercises – Drafting of Complaint, Information,
a. Mandatory conciliation-mediation Affidavits of Desistance, etc.
b. Labor arbiter
c. NLRC
d. Judicial review of labor rulings COMMERCIAL LAW
e. BLR 1. FRIA
f. National Conciliation and Mediation Board 2. AMLA
g. POEA 3. Corporation
h. DOLE a. Grandfather rule vs. Control test
i. Grievance machinery b. Doctrine of centralized management
j. Voluntary arbitrator c. Proprietary rights of stockholders and members
k. Prescription of actions i. Right to dividends
ii. Right to inspect
iii. Pre-emptive right
CRIMINAL LAW iv. Right of first refusal
1. Stages of execution – rape, theft, arson d. Remedial rights
2. Continuing crimes e. Derivative suits
3. Complex crimes and composite crimes f. What constitutes doing business by foreign
4. Absolutory causes corporations
5. Multiple offenders – recidivism, habituality, quasi- g. One-person corporation
recidivism, habitual delinquency
6. Subsidiary imprisonment
7. Probation law CIVIL LAW
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1.Annulment under Art. 36 – Tan-Andal vs. Andal 5. Rule 127- provisional remedies
2.Property relations between husband and wife 6. Revised Guidelines on Continuous Trial
3.Institution of heirs 7. The Rule on Cybercrime Warrants
4.Legal and intestate succession – relationship and right of
representation CIVPRO
5. Right of accretion 1. Summons
6. Partition and distribution of estate 2. Prohibited motions
7. Requisites of contract 3. Intervention
8. Rescissible vs. voidable vs. unenforceable vs. void or 4. Modes of Discovery
inexistent contracts 5. Consolidation or severance
9. Natural obligations 6. Provisional remedies
10. Estoppel 7. Special civil actions – Rule 62, 63, 65, Expropriation, 69
11. Trusts 8. Forcible entry and unlawful detainer vs. accion
12. Recto and Maceda Law publiciana/accion reinvindicatoria
13. Equitable mortgage 9. Contempt
14. Assignment of credits
15. Culpa aquiliana vs. culpa contractual vs. culpa criminal LEGAL ETHICS
16. Last clear chance 1. Crimes involving moral turpitude
17. Res ipsa loquitur 2. Good moral character as a continuing qualification
18. Rights of builder/planter/sower in good faith 3. Permissible advertisements (CANON 2)
19. Easements 4. Attorney’s fees
20. Accion interdictal vs. accion publiciana vs. accion 5. Acceptance fee
reinvindicatoria 6. Contingency fee arrangements
21. Cadastral system of registration 7. Attorneys liens
22. Registration through administrative proceedings 8. Fees and controversies with clients
23. Practical exercises – demand and authorization letters; 9. Suspension, disbarment, and discipline of lawyers (Rule
simple contracts; complaint 139; Rule 139-B)
CRIMPRO
1. When injunction may be issued TAX
2. Preliminary investigation (executive vs. judicial 1. Inherent and constitutional limitations of taxation
determination of probable cause) 2. Construction and interpretation of tax laws, rules, and
3. Rule 113 - Arrest regulations
4. Motion for New Trial or Reconsideration 3. Exemption from taxation
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4. Equitable recoupment b. The Ombudsman – judicial review in administrative
5. Tax remedies under NIRC proceedings; judicial review in penal proceedings
6. Tax remedies under LGC c. The Sandiganbayan
6. Administrative law
POLITICAL LAW a. Quasi-judicial power
1. Legislative - process of law-making b. Quasi-legislative power
2. Executive c. Primary jurisdiction and exhaustion of remedies
a. powers of the president – midnight appointments 7. Public international law
b. power of control and supervision a. Basis of jurisdiction - passive personality principle;
c. executive clemency nationality principle and statelessness; universality
d. powers relative to appropriation measures principle; protective principle
e. rules of succession b. Act of State doctrine
3. Judicial – judicial review (requisites; political question c. Precautionary principle
doctrine; moot questions)
4. Bill of Rights
a. Void-for-vagueness
b. Privacy of communications and correspondence -
Private and public communications; Intrusion, when
allowed
c. Freedom of speech and expression – prior restraint;
facial challenges and overbreadth doctrine; test of
validity of governmental regulation
d. Freedom of religion – benevolent neutrality and
conscientious objectors
e. Eminent Domain – expropriation
f. Rights under custodial investigation; exclusionary
doctrine
g. Rights of the accused – trial in absentia; right of
confrontation
h. Right against double jeopardy
5. Law on Public Officers
a. Disabilities and inhibitions of public officers

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Special Penal laws

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