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    The complainant filed a complaint seeking to disbar the respondent lawyer for immorality, alleging the respondent was having an affair with the complainant's wife. The respondent denied the allegations. The issue was whether the respondent failed to comply with conduct standards for lawyers. The court determined to reprimand the respondent and warn him, finding his conduct unbecoming a lawyer, but not suspending him from practice.

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    The complainant filed a complaint seeking to disbar the respondent lawyer for immorality, alleging the respondent was having an affair with the complainant's wife. The respondent denied the allegations. The issue was whether the respondent failed to comply with conduct standards for lawyers. The court determined to reprimand the respondent and warn him, finding his conduct unbecoming a lawyer, but not suspending him from practice.

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    The complainant filed a complaint seeking to disbar the respondent lawyer for immorality, alleging the respondent was having an affair with the complainant's wife. The respondent denied the allegations. The issue was whether the respondent failed to comply with conduct standards for lawyers. The court determined to reprimand the respondent and warn him, finding his conduct unbecoming a lawyer, but not suspending him from practice.

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    LegProf - Tolosa Vs Cargo

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    The complainant filed a complaint seeking to disbar the respondent lawyer for immorality, alleging the respondent was having an affair with the complainant's wife. The respondent denied the allegations. The issue was whether the respondent failed to comply with conduct standards for lawyers. The court determined to reprimand the respondent and warn him, finding his conduct unbecoming a lawyer, but not suspending him from practice.

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    JOSE TOLOSA, complainant

    vs.
    ALFREDO CARGO, respondent

    AC 2385. March 8, 1989


    SYLLABUS

    LEGAL ETHICS; FAILURE OF A LAWYER TO LAWYERS MUST NOT ONLY BE OF GOOD IMPOSITION OF REPRIMAND UPON A
    COMPLY WITH THE RIGOROUS STANDARDS MORAL CHARACTER BUT MUST LIVE AND LAWYER FOR CONDUCT UNBECOMING A
    OF CONDUCT REQUIRED OF MEMBERS OF THE BE SEEN TO BE OF GOOD MORAL MEMBER OF THE BAR:
    BAR AND OFFICERS OF THE COURT: CHARACTER:
    The Court Resolved to REPRIMAND
    The Court agrees that respondent should be lawyers must not only in fact be of good moral respondent attorney and to WARN him that
    reprimanded for failure to comply with the character but must also be seen to be of good continuation of the same or similar conduct
    rigorous standards of conduct appropriately moral character and leading lives in accordance will be dealt with more severely in the future.
    required from the members of the Bar and with the highest moral standards of the
    ofFIcers of the court. community.
    FACTS: PETITIONER
    April 1982, complainant filed an Affidavit-
    Complaint seeking the disbarment of respondent
    District Citizens' Attorney Alfredo Cargo for
    immorality. Complainant claimed that respondent
    had been seeing his (complainant's) wife. in his
    house and elsewhere. Complainant further alleged
    that in June 1981, his wife left his conjugal home
    and went to live with responden. and that since
    then has been living with respondent.
    FACTS: RESPONDENT
    respondent ;led a "Comment and/or Answer. May 1982 denying
    the allegations of complainant. Respondent acknowledged that
    complainant's mother-in-law had also frequently sought the
    advice of respondent and of his wife and mother as to what to do
    about the "continuous quarrels between af;ant and his wife and
    the beatings and physical injuries that the latter sustained from
    the former." Respondent ;led a Rejoinder on 19 July 1982,
    denying the further allegations of complainant, and stating that
    he (respondent) had merely given complainant's wife financial
    assistance during her confinement in the hospital
    ISSUE

    WON the respondent failed to comply with the


    rigorous standards of conduct required of
    members of the bar and officers of the court.
    RULING
    - We agree with the Solicitor General
    - For this very reason, we do not believe that the penalty of
    suspension from the practice of law may be properly
    imposed upon respondent.For this very reason, we do not
    believe that the penalty of suspension from the practice
    of law may be properly imposed upon respondent.
    - ACCORDINGLY, the Court Resolved to REPRIMAND
    respondent attorney for conduct unbecoming a member
    of the Bar and an of;cer of the court, and to WARN him
    that continuation of the same or similar conduct will be
    dealt with more severely

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