MANILA, Philippines — At least 157 members of the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Law faculty and more than 700 lawyers have asked the Supreme Court (SC) to address and investigate a police station’s request for a list of lawyers representing alleged members of communist groups.
Those who signed the document claim that the Calbayog City Police’s actions were in violation of paragraphs 16 and 18 of the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, which says that governments should ensure that lawyers can perform their functions without being intimidated, harassed, and interfered, and without being made to suffer for their actions connected to their professional duties.
