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The letter is a request from an attorney to the Secretary of the Department of Health for written permission to engage in limited private legal practice. Specifically, the attorney requests permission to serve as a notary public in their city and to appear before courts, tribunals, and administrative bodies as private counsel. The letter cites a civil service rule requiring government employees whose responsibilities do not fully occupy their time to obtain written permission from their department head to engage in private practice of law.

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Letter Request

The letter is a request from an attorney to the Secretary of the Department of Health for written permission to engage in limited private legal practice. Specifically, the attorney requests permission to serve as a notary public in their city and to appear before courts, tribunals, and administrative bodies as private counsel. The letter cites a civil service rule requiring government employees whose responsibilities do not fully occupy their time to obtain written permission from their department head to engage in private practice of law.

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LETTER-REQUEST TO ENGAGE IN THE LIMITED PRACTICE OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION

November 2020

HON. FRANCISCO DUQUE III


Secretary
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
San Lazaro Compoud, Tayuman, Sta. Cruz, Manila
Philippines 1003

Dear Secretary Duque,

Greetings!

I, the undersigned, would like to respectfully request from your kind office a WRITTEN AUTHORITY
TO ENGAGE IN LIMITED PRACTICE OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION, specifically to act in the
following capacity:

1. as Notary Public, for and in the City of


2. as Private Counsel, to appear before any court of law, tribunal, administrative and/or quasi-
judicial body.

I am a member of the Philippine Bar and was admitted to the practice of law in the Philippines on
__________.

A civil service officer or employee whose responsibilities do not require his time to be fully at the
disposal of the government can engage in the private practice of law only with the written permission
of the head of the department concerned.17 Section 12, Rule XVIII of the Revised Civil Service Rules
provides:

Sec. 12. No officer or employee shall engage directly in any private business, vocation,
or profession or be connected with any commercial, credit, agricultural, or industrial
undertaking without a written permission from the head of the Department: Provided,
That this prohibition will be absolute in the case of those officers and employees whose
duties and responsibilities require that their entire time be at the disposal of the
Government; Provided, further, That if an employee is granted permission to engage in
outside activities, time so devoted outside of office hours should be fixed by the agency to
the end that it will not impair in any way the efficiency of the officer or employee:
And provided, finally, that no permission is necessary in the case of investments, made by
an officer or employee, which do not involve real or apparent conflict between his private
interests and public duties, or in any way influence him in the discharge of his duties, and he
shall not take part in the management of the enterprise or become an officer of the board of
directors. (emphasis supplied)

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