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PHILIPPINE CODE PROJECT Chateau Verde Apacible St., U.P. Campus, Diliman, Q.C. November 24, 2009

MINUTES OF THE MEETING

PRESENT

Director Jesus Disini M. Jr. Atty. Nicholas Felix L. Ty Atty. Rebecca Khan Atty. D. Anissia Salvador-Directo Patrick Henry D. Salazar Michelle Arias

I. CALL TO ORDER

   The meeting was called to order at around 8:00 pm presided by Atty. Nicky Ty.

II. MATTERS FOR DISCUSSION

   A.  Appointment of Lead Consultant for the Project

         It has been resolved that Atty. D. Anissia Salvador-Directo shall be the lead     
    consultant of the project.  As lead consultant, she will be the point person with the
    primary duty of supervising the project and coordinating with the members.

    B.  Identification of Leads for Potential Resource Persons

    1.  Jun Lopez/Lea Olores
        1602-A East Tower,                   - c/o Atty D. Anissia Salvador-Directo 
        Tektite Towers, Makati 
        Tel. No.: 635-0362/687-4863

    2.  US Code Office and                   - try sending an e-mail
        similar code offices in each State

    3.  Prof. John Molo                      - c/o Atty. Nicholas Ty

    4.  Atty. Antonio Santos  
        (Law Librarian)
   
    5.  American Bar Association             - c/o Atty. Rebecca Khan
        (ABA) Law

    6.  Prof. Araceli Baviera
             Prof. Baviera participated in the Code Commission responsible for the drafting
             of the Civil Code

    7.  George
             Dir. Disini mentioned a meeting with USA-AIT regarding funding of the project

    C.  Egroupware

             Members of the project were encouraged to use the "EGROUPWARE' with address at 
        http://10.34.50.13/egroupware as an online mechanism for posting of official 
        communication among the members and monitoring of project status and developments.
        Username and passwords are available at IGLR Office through the secretary.

             Research assistants were also assigned to develop a "WIKI" or an online  
        homepage through the WIKI feature of the EGROUPWARE.  It shall contain an outline
        of the titles, brief descriptions, and the links to the US Code, the different State
        Codes of the United States of America (Mainland), and other relevant research 
        materials.

    D.  Research Updates on the US Code
        
             Dir. Disini proposed that the members explore the US Code, understand how it 
        was divided into subcategories and find out where certain topics were inserted in  
        the Code.  Further, he suggested that the differentoutlines of the different State
        codes in the USA be studied and compared with one another.  By looking at these 
        outlines, the principle or ruling behind their structure could be discovered.  He
        recommended a review of the US Court System since Federal Laws which govern 
        interstate activities are distinct and have a separate jurisdiction from State   
        Laws.  It is also worthy to note that certain laws are exclusive to the federal 
        system and other laws enacted by the federal government overwrites state law.  
        While US is of common law jurisdiction, which makes the US Louisiana are under 
        civil law jurisdiction, which makes the US Code and certain State Codes 
        appropriate bases for the drafting or the Philippine Code.

             Atty, Khan mentioned that there are also certain gaps or imperfections in the