NCIP Commission Enhancement Training

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The NCIP’s Commission en banc (CEB) exercises original and excusive jurisdiction over petitions for cancellation of registered CADTs and CALTs alleged to have been fraudulently acquired and actions for cancellation of Certification Precondition, Certificate of Non-Overlap issues by the NCIP and rescissions of FPIC-MOA. It also has appellate jurisdiction over decisions of the regional hearing officers. Given the complex subject matter of cases before the CEB, much of these critical to the life and welfare of IP communities, training support for the commissioners in relevant substantive and procedural matters would have immeasurable value. Thus it was that EPJUST II supported the first ever initiative to provide capacity building for the commissioners with the end in view of enhancing their competence in performing key aspects of their quasi-judicial functions. A series of 10 customised lectures were delivered by short-term expert Dean Sedfrey Candelaria of the Ateneo Law School and Philja over a period of 5 months. After the training, the commissioners felt that the training would enable each of them to participate more confidently in the deliberation and resolution of every case that comes before them. This training will now be made a standard requirement for all new commissioners henceforth.