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GUIDELINES
FOR THE MCLE ACCREDITED PROVIDERS IN THE CONDUCT OF MCLE APPROVED
ACTIVITIES
[Guidelines
No. 01, s. 2002]
1.
Six
copies of the application for approval of MCLE activity/program
(MCLE/program
(MCLE For, 02) shall be filed with the MCLE office 45 days prior to the
presentation of the activity. The
MCLE office is located n the 4th Floor, IBP Building, 15
Dona
Julia Vargas Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City. Application
shall include the Program Agenda/Announcement brochures with program
details;
Curriculum Vitae of each of the Speakers; and a summary of each lecture
and its subject classification under Rule 2, Bar Matter 850 and under
En
Banc Resolution of the Supreme Court dated 15 January 2002, to wit:
MCLE
Subjects
Credit
Units
(a)
Legal
Ethics
6
CU
(b) Trial
and Pre-Trial Skills
4
CU
(c) Alternative
Dispute Resolution
5
CU
(d)
Updates
on Substantive and Procedural
Laws
and Jurisprudence
9
CU
(e) Legal
Writing and Oral Advocacy
4
CU
(f) International
Law and International
Conventions
2
CU
(g) MCLE
Prescribed Subjects
6
CU
1.
Technology
and the Law
2.
Law
and Economics
3.
Environmental
Law
4.
International
Legal Processes
5.
Transnational
Business Transactions
6.
Law
Reforms in Specific Areas of Law
7.
Law
as a Means of Social Control
2.
The
venue shall be suitable for a legal education activity, adequate to
accommodate
the expected number of participants, accessible to a public
transportation
system, and free from any disturbances.
3.
Upon
the approval of the application, the MCLE Office shall issue a sample
of
the Attendance Form and of the Evaluation Form to the Provider for
reproduction
and distribution to the lawyer-participants before the start of the
program. At
the end of the program, the participants/attendees shall individually
submit
their Attendance to the Program Monitor. No
credit units shall be awarded to an attendee who fails to submit his
Attendance
Form to the Program Monitor.
4.
The
Provider should avoid scheduling the activity on a religious holiday.
5.
All
MCLE activities shall be conducted substantially as announced and
represented
to the Committee (with respect to the date, time venue, assigned
speaker/s,
topics, and the subjects of the lectures or activities). The
MCLE Committee should be informed in advance and in writing of any
changes/deviations
from the information in the Application Form (MCLE Form 02).
6.
The
Provider shall encourage the speaker/lecturer to use visual
aids/projector
for a more lively presentation and to generate interest among the
participants.
7.
The
Provider shall give the hand-outs/reading materials to the participants
before the start of the lecture.
8.
For
an approved day-long activity, the Provider shall consider coffee
breaks
(at least one in the morning and one in the afternoon) to give the
participants
some time to stretch-out, relax, and be ready for the succeeding
lecture/s.
9.
The
Provider shall allow, without prior notice, the MCLE Committee or its
designated
representative to monitor any approved activity.
10.
In
case of cancellation of an activity without sufficient advance notice
to
the Committee, the Provider shall reimburse the transportation and
other
expenses that may have been incurred by the MCLE Representative to
monitor
the activity.
11.
The
Provider shall furnish a numbered Identification Card/Name Tag to all
the
participants and require them to wear the same at all times during the
activity/program to enable the Monitor to check the ingress and egress
of participants from the room while an activity is in
progress. A
participant must leave with the Monitor his Name Tag whenever he leaves
the lecture hall. The
Monitor shall note therein the time of egress and ingress.
12.
Prior
to the start of the program, the Provider shall request the
participants
to read and follow the guidelines for Participants printed on the back
of the attendance form.
13.
Within
30 days after each MCLE activity, the Provider shall submit a report
containing
a summary of the program, its evaluation of the program, lecturers, an
alphabetical listing of attendees with their corresponding IBP Number
and
Number in the Roll of Attorneys, and pay the activity/program fee of
P100.00
per participant/attendee per day of activity, including repetitions of
the same program. The
provider shall reconcile its list of participants with that of the
Program
Monitor based on the attendance forms submitted.
14.
Government
educational institutions, offices, and IBP Chapters accredited as MCLE
Providers, shall pay to the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education
Committee
a fee of P500.00 per day of MCLE activity/program, payable upon the
filing
of the application for approval of the activity/program (MCLE Form
02). The
fees shall be assessed by the treasurer of the MCLE in writing and
shall
be paid to the cashier of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, Padre
Faura
Street, Ermita, Manila.
15.
The
MCLE Committee shall compute the credit units earned by a participant
on
the basis of “one credit unit for every hour of lecture actually
attended
rounded to the nearest quarter of an hour.”
APPROVED
THIS 12TH day of August 2002, in Pasig City, Metro Manila,
Philippines.
CAROLINA
C. GRINO-AQUINO
MCLE
Committee Chairperson
(Orig.
Sgd.)
TEOFILO
S. PILANDO, JR.
MCLE
Committee Member
(Orig.
Sgd.)
REGALADO
E. MAAMBONG
MCLE
Committee Member
(Orig.
Sgd.)
PACIFICO
A. AGABIN
MCLE
Committee Member
(Orig.
Sgd.)
VICTORIA A.
AVENA
MCLE
Committee Member
(Orig.
Sgd.) | 
