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    In RE Lanuevo

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    This administrative proceeding summarizes the facts of the case against Victorio Lanuevo, the 1971 Bar Confidant, for initiating the reevaluation of bar exam results without authorization. The investigation revealed that Lanuevo approached each of the five bar examiners individually and deceptively convinced them to reevaluate the grades of examinee Ramon Galang. While the examiners acted in good faith, Lanuevo exceeded his authority as Confidant. The court ruled to disbar both Lanuevo for breaching the trust given to him and Galang for fraudulently concealing criminal charges on his application.

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    This administrative proceeding summarizes the facts of the case against Victorio Lanuevo, the 1971 Bar Confidant, for initiating the reevaluation of bar exam results without authorization. The investigation revealed that Lanuevo approached each of the five bar examiners individually and deceptively convinced them to reevaluate the grades of examinee Ramon Galang. While the examiners acted in good faith, Lanuevo exceeded his authority as Confidant. The court ruled to disbar both Lanuevo for breaching the trust given to him and Galang for fraudulently concealing criminal charges on his application.

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    This administrative proceeding summarizes the facts of the case against Victorio Lanuevo, the 1971 Bar Confidant, for initiating the reevaluation of bar exam results without authorization. The investigation revealed that Lanuevo approached each of the five bar examiners individually and deceptively convinced them to reevaluate the grades of examinee Ramon Galang. While the examiners acted in good faith, Lanuevo exceeded his authority as Confidant. The court ruled to disbar both Lanuevo for breaching the trust given to him and Galang for fraudulently concealing criminal charges on his application.

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    In RE Lanuevo

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    This administrative proceeding summarizes the facts of the case against Victorio Lanuevo, the 1971 Bar Confidant, for initiating the reevaluation of bar exam results without authorization. The investigation revealed that Lanuevo approached each of the five bar examiners individually and deceptively convinced them to reevaluate the grades of examinee Ramon Galang. While the examiners acted in good faith, Lanuevo exceeded his authority as Confidant. The court ruled to disbar both Lanuevo for breaching the trust given to him and Galang for fraudulently concealing criminal charges on his application.

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    IN RE: VICTORIO D.

    LANUEVO
    A.M. NO. 1162 AUGUST 29, 1975
    IN
    IN RE:
    RE: RAMON
    RAMON E. E. GALANG,
    GALANG, ALIAS
    ALIAS
    ROMAN
    ROMAN E. E. GALANG
    GALANG
    A.C.
    A.C. NO.
    NO. 1163
    1163 AUGUST
    AUGUST 29,
    29, 1975
    1975
    IN
    IN RE:
    RE: HON.
    HON. BERNARDO
    BERNARDO PARDO,
    PARDO, HON.
    HON.
    RAMON
    RAMON PAMATIAN,
    PAMATIAN, ATTY.
    ATTY. MANUEL
    MANUEL
    TOMACRUZ,
    TOMACRUZ, ATTY.
    ATTY. FIDEL
    FIDEL
    MANALO
    MANALO ANDAND ATTY.
    ATTY. GUILLERMO
    GUILLERMO
    PABLO,
    PABLO, JR.
    JR.
    A.C.
    A.C. NO.
    NO. 1164
    1164 AUGUST
    AUGUST 29,
    29, 1975
    1975
    Facts
    This is an administrative proceeding against
    Victorio Lanuevo who was the Bar Confidant
    during the 1971 Bar Examination, emanating
    from the revelation of one Oscar Landicho, a
    bar examinee of the same bar exam, in his
    confidential letter, stating that the result of
    the bar exam of one of the bar examinees,
    later identified as Ramon Galang, was raised
    to make him pass the bar before the result
    was released.
    Facts

    Acting upon said letter, the court


    called the five bar examiners and the
    Bar Confidant Lanuevo to submit
    their sworn statements on the matter.
    Facts
    It appears that each of the five bar examiners
    were approached by Lanuevo with the examination
    booklet, asking them to reevaluate the grades of
    the bar examiner, explaining that it is a practice
    policy in bar exams that he will review the grades
    obtained in all subjects by an examinee, and when
    he finds a candidate to have extraordinary high
    grades in other subjects and low grade in one
    subject, he can bring it to the examiner for
    reconsideration to help the candidate pass.
    Facts

    In good faith, trust, and confidence


    in the authority of Lanuevo, the
    examiners reevaluated the exam of
    the candidate and reconsidered the
    grade they gave for each subject
    matter.
    Facts

    Further investigation also revealed


    that Ramon Galang was charged with
    the crime of slight physical injuries in
    the Manila MTC, but he did not
    disclose this information in his
    application to take the bar
    examination.
    Issue

    Whether or not Lanuevo had


    the authority to ask bar
    examiners to reevaluate and
    recorrect the examination result
    of a bar candidate.
    Ruling

    The court ruled that it was evident


    that Lanuevo had deceptively staged a
    plot to convince each examiner
    individually to reevaluate the grades of
    Galang in order to help him pass the bar
    without prior authorization of the Court.
    His duty as a Bar Confidant is limited
    only as a custodian of the examination
    notebooks after they are corrected by
    the examiners, where he is tasked to
    Ruling
    All requests for reevaluation of grades
    from the bar exam shall be made by the
    candidate themselves. With the facts fully
    established that Lanuevo initiated the
    reevaluation of the exam answers of Galang
    without the authority of the Court, he has
    breached the trust and confidence given to
    him by the court and was disbarred, with his
    name stricken out from the roll of attorneys.
    Ruling

    Galang was likewise disbarred for


    fraudulently concealing the criminal
    charges against him in his application
    for the bar exam while under oath,
    constituting perjury. The court
    believed that the five bar examiners
    acted in good faith and thereby
    absolved from the case but reminded
    them to perform their duties with due

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