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Prohibition against employment by local government units of private lawyers to handle their legal cases.

Prohibition against employment by local government units of private lawyers to handle their legal cases.

COA Circular No. 98-002 | 1998-06-09

COMMISSION ON AUDIT CIRCULAR NO. 98-002
June 9, 1998
 
TO: Provincial Governors, City and Municipal Mayors, Other Local Chief Executives, COA Directors, Regional Directors, Heads of Provincial, City, Municipal and Circuit Municipal Units, and All Others Concerned.; Chief Accountants/Heads of Accounting Units, and All Others Concerned.   
 
SUBJECT: Prohibition against employment by local government units of private lawyers to handle their legal cases.

For the information and guidance of all concerned, quoted hereunder are excerpts from the letter of Hon. Silvestre H. Bello III, Solicitor General, dated January 27, 1997,...