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Spouses Algura vs. City of Naga, et al.

SPOUSES ANTONIO F. ALGURA and LORENCITA S.J. ALGURA, Petitioners, versus THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNIT OF THE CITY OF NAGA, ATTY. MANUEL TEOXON, ENGR. LEON PALMIANO, NATHAN SERGIO and BENJAMIN NAVARRO, SR., Respondents.

G.R. No. 150135 | 2006-10-30

THIRD DIVISION
 
D E C I S I O N 
 
VELASCO, JR., J.: 
 
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty 
knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. 
 
-- James Baldwin 
 
The Constitution affords litigants-moneyed or poor-equal access to the courts; moreover, it specifically provides that poverty shall not bar any person from having access to the courts.[1] Accordingly, laws and rules must be formulated, interpreted, and implemented pursuant to the intent and spirit of this constitutional provision. As such, filing fees, though one of the essential elements in court procedures, should not be an...