Speaker martin romualdez urged his fellow lawyers to be defenders and protectors of the constitution, justice, rule of law, and the weak who cannot afford the cost of legal service. “we must ensure that every filipino, whether rich or poor, educated or unlettered, knows that the law is not the instrument of the powerful, but the protector of the weak. And though they say you “can’t fight city hall,” when you can, it’s because of our nation’s rule of law.
The weakness of the rule of law in this country is among the problems consistently raised not only by rights watchdogs but also by investors. As between these small lot buyers and the. “we must ensure that every filipino, whether rich or poor, educated or unlettered, knows that the law is not the instrument of the powerful, but the protector of the weak.
Should laws primarily protect the weak or the strong? The unmistakable intent of the law is to protect innocent lot buyers from scheming subdivision developers. Against the government, we are the weak. Does the law protect the weak?
If that is true, t e weak can certainly see the law as. The government and the judges should reform and enforce. The american gulag and the few cases of foreigners disappearing or dying mysteriously depicts a problem in the law enforcement. It is a prohibitory law.