DAR-Cagayan (North) holds regular Legal Clinic in the barangays

The Department of AgrarianReform–Cagayan (DARPO-Cagayan), Legal Assistance Division has adopted another effective strategy in bringing its services to where it is needed most by conducting a scheduled legal clinic in faraway barangays throughout the province.

This is accomplished by a team from the DARPO Legal Division going to a certain barangay in a municipality coordinated with the DAR Municipal Agrarian Reform Office (DARMO). Upon arrival, simultaneous activities such as lectures, legal counselling and mediation groups attend to specific needs of the farmers. If the parties in a case requiring mediation are present, a mediation conference is instantly conducted by assigned legal officers which usually ends up with an amicable settlement.

According to Atty. Fatima Yadao, Chief of the Legal Division of DARPO-Cagayan, many agrarian disputes have been resolved on site, i.e., farmers do not have to travel to its office at the DARPO in Tuguegarao for the resolution of issues affecting landowner-tenant relationship and other agrarian disputes.

           The onsite legal forum also includes lectures and discussions about agrarian laws. An open forum elicits questions from farmers, landowners, farm workers and local officials (barangay and municipal officials) and other CARP stakeholders usually resolves issues that would have concluded in protracted and expensive litigations. Matters requiring more serious consideration are scheduled for resolution at the DARPO if warranted. 
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