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    1) The case involved the disbarment of Atty. Vicente Renomeron for irregular acts related to the registration of 163 deeds of sale with the National Land Titles and Deeds Registration Authority (NLTDRA). 2) Specifically, Renomeron delayed the registrations and then demanded payment of his airfare and pocket money in exchange for approving the registrations. 3) The court found Renomeron guilty of grave misconduct as a public official based on his acts of dishonesty and oppression. As these also violated his oath and duties as a lawyer, the court disbarred Renomeron from the practice of law.

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    1) The case involved the disbarment of Atty. Vicente Renomeron for irregular acts related to the registration of 163 deeds of sale with the National Land Titles and Deeds Registration Authority (NLTDRA). 2) Specifically, Renomeron delayed the registrations and then demanded payment of his airfare and pocket money in exchange for approving the registrations. 3) The court found Renomeron guilty of grave misconduct as a public official based on his acts of dishonesty and oppression. As these also violated his oath and duties as a lawyer, the court disbarred Renomeron from the practice of law.

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    1) The case involved the disbarment of Atty. Vicente Renomeron for irregular acts related to the registration of 163 deeds of sale with the National Land Titles and Deeds Registration Authority (NLTDRA). 2) Specifically, Renomeron delayed the registrations and then demanded payment of his airfare and pocket money in exchange for approving the registrations. 3) The court found Renomeron guilty of grave misconduct as a public official based on his acts of dishonesty and oppression. As these also violated his oath and duties as a lawyer, the court disbarred Renomeron from the practice of law.

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    Collantes v. Renomeron

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    1) The case involved the disbarment of Atty. Vicente Renomeron for irregular acts related to the registration of 163 deeds of sale with the National Land Titles and Deeds Registration Authority (NLTDRA). 2) Specifically, Renomeron delayed the registrations and then demanded payment of his airfare and pocket money in exchange for approving the registrations. 3) The court found Renomeron guilty of grave misconduct as a public official based on his acts of dishonesty and oppression. As these also violated his oath and duties as a lawyer, the court disbarred Renomeron from the practice of law.

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    WHO MAY PRACTICE LAW

    Case no. 3
    Collantes v. Renomeron
    A.C. no. 3056
    August 16, 1991
    En Banc

    Facts:
     This case is about the disbarment of Atty. Vicente C. Renomeron for irregular
    actuations with regard to V&G Better Homes Subdivision Inc for the registration of 163
    pro forma Deeds of Absolute Sale with Assignment of lots together with complaints on
    other offenses, to wit: a) neglecting or refusing in spite repeated requests and without
    sufficient justification to act with in reasonable time in the registration of 163 Deeds of
    Absolute Sale with assignment and 163 transfer certificates of titles to the GSIS, for the
    purpose of obtaining some pecuniary or material benefit from persons interested therein;
    b) conduct unbecoming of public official; c) dishonesty; d) extortion; e) directly receiving
    pecuniary or material benefit for himself in connection to pending transactions; f) causing
    undue injury to a party through manifest partiality and evident bad faith or gross
    inexcusable negligence; and g) gross ignorance of the law and procedure.
     The case started when the respondent attorney has continuously delayed the requested
    163 deeds of sale until such time that the requesting party has filed for a request should
    he approve or deny the registration of V&G.
     Even though the company complied with the said requirements, the respondent attorney
    suspended the registration for which prompted the special agreement between the
    respondent and the requesting party which provides that the requesting party must pay
    for his round-trip ticket from Tacloban to Manila costing Php 800 and additional Php
    2,000 for his pocket money. The respondent assured the requesting party that they will
    be promptly favored if they will follow the conditions.
     The requesting party only shouldered the airfare and failed to pay for the pocket money.
    The respondent received payment through his niece. Due to failure to pay for pocket
    money, the respondent denied the registration of the said party.
     The V&G filed for consideration and argued that it is only on Atty. Renomeron’s term that
    they have been denied of registration.
     The respondent filed the case to NLTDRA and was ruled that the documents were
    registrable.
     After the investigation of the charges filed against the defendant, the Secretary of Justice
    Ordañez found him guilty of grave misconduct.
     Due to his overt acts, he was dismissed from public office by the President Corazon
    Aquino.

    Issue:

    Whether or not may the respondent be disciplined by the court for his malfeasance as a public
    official.

    Ruling:
    Yes. The misconduct as a public official also constituted for a violation of his oath as a lawyer. In
    the lawyer’s oath, Rule 138 Sec 17 of the Rules of Court, it is imposed upon every lawyer the
    duty to delay no man for money or malice. Thus, in the Code of Professional Responsibility
    applies to lawyers in government service in the discharge of their official tasks. (Sec 5 subpar c
    and d). Also, Rule 1.01 of CPR, provides that the CPR forbids a lawyer to engage in unlawful,
    dishonest, immoral, or deceitful conduct. Most importantly, A lawyer shall not engage in conduct
    that adversely reflects on his fitness to practice law, nor shall he, whether in public or private life,
    behave in a scandalous manner to the discredit of the legal profession. (Rule 7.03, Code of
    Professional Responsibility.)

    The acts of dishonesty and oppression which Attorney Renomeron committed as a


    public official have demonstrated his unfitness to practice the high and noble calling of
    the law (Bautista vs. Judge Guevarra, 142 SCRA 632; Court Administrator vs. Rodolfo G.
    Hermoso, 150 SCRA 269). He should therefore be disbarred.

    WHEREFORE, it is hereby ordered that Attorney Vicente C. Renomeron be disbarred


    from the practice of law in the Philippines, and that his name be stricken off the Roll of
    Attorneys

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