Eugene Alvarez Tan (1943-1994) is a Filipino human rights lawyer, author, and law professor. He was murdered in 1994.
Tan was elected President and Chairman of the Philippine Maritime Law Association, President of the Bar Association of the Philippines from 1987-1988 and President of the Philippine National Integrated Bar from 1990-1991.
Tan is a prominent advocate representative in many important cases including the abolition of dorm fees imposed on air and sea passengers in 1989; an increase in maternity allowances for Filipino sailors in 1989 and succeeded in his efforts to win a basic police salary increase in 1970.
He questioned the authority of the 1971 Constitutional Convention to adopt a form of parliamentary government, actively representing the legality challenge of President Marcos (PCO) Commandment Command (PCO) in 1983. With Judge J.B.L. Reyes and others he attacked the legality of the Elections called Pres. Marcos in 1985, and a member of a panel of fact-finding committees appointed by the Philippine government in 1995 that investigated the Escalante Massacre.
In 1990 Tan was elected as the National President of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP).
During the following years, and until his sudden death, Tan was later awarded with several awards in the field of Maritime law, Human Rights, and Social Justice Advocacy. He remains a supporter of legal advocacy and social rights activist in the Philippine community, and is recognized by the conferment of royal titles and appointments to various national and international interest boards and committees.
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Tan was born during the Japanese occupation of the town of Cow-an, Capiz, to a Chinese immigrant, Tan Chun, and a local woman, Fidelina Alvarez.
Tan was blinded in one eye as a child, after an accident.
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Education
Tan passed the Law with a predicate as valedictorian and accepted at the Philippine Bar in 1968.
Qualification
Valedictorian, LL.B. High School of Law, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines.
Careers
Tan is the first President and founder of the Brotherhood Envoy, a Law School Fraternity founded at Ateneo de Manila University Law School in 1964
and began his career in 1968 as a junior lawyer in Ross, Selph, Salcedo, Del Rosario, Bito and Mass in Metro Manila after his call to the bar.
In 1983 he received the Youngest Achievers of the Meritorious World Prize in Law in the Philippines (TOYP).
In 1976, Tan established a practice in partnership specializing in the field of intellectual property, marine, and maritime with Ignacio S. Sapalo founded Tan & amp; Sapalo Law Firm, In 1977, the company became Tan, Sapalo, Manzano & amp; Law Office of Velez and currently known as Sapalo Velez Bundang and Bulilan.
Tan was a member of the Supervisory Board in 1982, Vice President of Legal Affairs from 1982-1983, Executive Vice President from 1983-1986; President from 1986-1987 and Chairman, 1987-1988 from the Philippine Maritime Law Association (MARLAW)
Tan was appointed as director in 1982, Vice President from 1986-1987 and President, 1987-1988 from the Philippine Lawyers Association (PBA)
and was elected President of Integrated Bar of the Philippines in 1989.
During Tan's period in November 1990, the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) staff lodged a complaint accusing favoritism and discrimination with Tan's meaningless employment practices. Adjudication of this issue set precedents in jurisprudence and cited in 1999 In The Problem Of The Petition To Removing Atty. Jose A. Grapilon As President, Integrated Bar Of The Philippines in 1999.
During Tan's career, he was a Law Professor, Law School, Ateneo de Manila University and was appointed by the Philippine government as a member of the Committee on the Facts of the Escalante Massacre (EFPC) to investigate civilians by the military (1984). He is also a Member, Advisory Council International Law and Comparative Law Of The South-western Legal Foundation (now American and International Law Center) University of Texas Dallas (1987-1991).
Career Highlights
In the legal community of the Philippines and in many other places of law, Tan urges, strives and encourages changes to the Philippine judicial system.
In particular, Tan's election for the Integrated Bar in the Philippines set a precedent for breaking the trend of a nearly two decade-old camp on the commission where he was the first small lawyer within a few years of the Capiz chapter to become President but it was also an opportunity for him to speak and act to implement changes that later became part of the framework of the Commission on Investigation and Discipline Bar.
Through CBID, retired judges can investigate allegations against innocent lawyers and protect them from harassment independently.
Tan successfully supports the transition to IBP independence which affirms the role of IBP as an independent lawyers' union mandated by the Constitution and laws that allow IBP to provide complementary institutions that support courts in examining and maintaining a balance of court offenses.
Publications
The Philippine Law On Agency, Edisi 1979.
Primary About Property Law and Intellectual Property in the Philippines, 1987 Edition
Death
On the night of November 14, 1994, Eugene, and his driver, Eduardo Constantino, were kidnapped by men in Metro Manila near Tan's home in Alabang, Muntinlupa, Metro Manila.
On November 18, 1994, after three days during the kidnapping details carried out from the public in hopes of helping them back, Tan and his driver were found dead in DasmariÃÆ' Â ± as, Cavite.
After the incident on November 22, 1994, the International Commission of Jurists made a request for a thorough investigation and quick prosecution of the perpetrators and there was a reference since Tan's death with a 'careless' investigation of kidnappings and murders and since Tan's death there have been several lawsuits, counter suits and many judicial delays following several arrests after orders were given to Philippine police by then President Fidel Ramos to send perpetrators to the justice system. For nearly two decades of strangled process, there was only one belief recorded in the matter of Tan's murder and his driver Constantino.
At the time of his death, Eugene survived by his wife, Cynthia Ledesma from Kabankalan, Negros Occidental, and five children: Eugene II; Eugene III; Eunice; Louisine; and Eugene IV.
References
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