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Imelda Bides-Ulaso Vs. Atty. Edita Noe-Lacsamana

IMELDA BIDES-ULASO, Complainant, versus ATTY. EDITA NOE-LACSAMANA, Respondent.

A.C. No. 7297 | 2009-09-29

D E C I S I O N


BERSAMIN, J.:

The decisive question to be resolved in this administrative proceeding is whether or not the notarization of the jurat of the amended verification and affidavit of non-forum shopping attached to the initiatory pleading even before the plaintiff-client has affixed her own signature amounts to censurable conduct on the part of the notary-counsel.

The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) found respondent Atty. Edita Noe-Lacsamana, the notary-counsel, guilty of gross negligence and of a violation of the Notarial Law; and recommended her suspension from the practice of law for six months.[1] She now pleads...