PUBLIC ATTORNEY'S OFFICE

Regional Office 10 · Cagayan de Oro City

special projects

Legal assistance are extended by virtue of agreements entered into with other government offices, directives from the Department of Justice, and special laws. The following are qualified for the services of the PAO:

1. Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) lawyers against whom criminal and administrative complaints have been filed for acts committed in connection with the performance of their duties.2. Farmer-beneficiaries of the Agrarian Reform Law:

a. in agrarian-related civil or criminal cases pending before the courts, and

b. in cases pending before the court or the DARAB against fellow beneficiaries where one of the parties is already represented by a lawyer from the Department of Agrarian Reform.

3. Indigent laborers in meritorious labor cases;

4. Indigent aliens;

5. Qualified overseas contract workers in all cases within the original and exclusive jurisdiction of the POEA;

6. Barangay Health Workers; and

7. The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in filing of petitions for the declaration that a child is abandoned or neglected.

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