The Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) garnered an 82.69 percent favorable disposition rate with 288,752 out of 349,185 cases successfully resolved in favor of persons it extended legal assistance in 2022.
The Public Attorney’s Office garnered an 82.69 percent favorable disposition rate with 288,752 out of 349,185 cases successfully resolved in favor of persons it extended legal assistance in 2022.
The PAO is an attached agency of the Department of Justice . It extends free legal assistance to indigent persons in criminal, civil, labor, administrative and other quasi-judicial cases. The favorable dispositions of 288,752 cases in 2022 is more than the 222,184 favorable dispositions in 2021 or a 15.98 per cent increase, it said.
It pointed out that the number of courts does not include those of the SC, the Court of Appeals, the Sandiganbayan, National Labor Relations Commission and other quasi-judicial bodies. It reminded that under Republic Act 9406 or the PAO Law, “there shall be a corresponding number of public attorney’s positions at the ratio of one public attorney to an organized sala and the corresponding administrative and support staff thereto.”
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