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PAFLU vs. BISC, et al.

PHILIPPINE ASSOCIATION OF FREE LABOR UNIONS (PAFLU), ENRIQUE ENTILA & VICTORIANO TENEZA, petitioners, vs. BINALBANGAN ISABELA SUGAR COMPANY, COURT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & QUINTIN MUNING, respondents.

G.R. No. L-23959 | 1971-11-29

D E C I S I O N


REYES, J.B.L., J:

May a non-lawyer recover attorney's fees for legal services rendered? This is the issue presented in this petition for review of an order, dated 12 May 1964, and the en banc resolution, dated 8 December 1964, of the Court of Industrial Relations, in its Case No. 72-ULP-Iloilo, granting respondent Quintin Muning, a non-lawyer, attorney's fees for professional services in the said case.

The above-named petitioners were complainants in Case No. 72-ULP-Iloilo, entitled, "PAFLU, et al, vs. Binalbagan-Isabela Sugar Co., et al." After trial, the Court of Industrial Relations rendered a decision, on 29 March...