Tag: Eligio Mallari

Aquino faces graft complaint over his appointment of Sereno as top magistrate

Three others, including Sereno, also charged   By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service A graft complaint has been filed against former President Benigno Aquino III in connection with his appointment of Maria Lourdes Sereno as top magistrate. Manuelito Luna of the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption and suspended lawyer Eligio Mallari filed the complaint also against Sereno, Judicial and Bar Council executive director Annaliza Ty-Capacite and the JBC’s chief of office of selection and nomination […]

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Sereno camp: Petition urging SolGen to challenge SC Chief Justice’s appointment a mere “scrap of paper”

(Eagle News) — A mere “scrap of paper.” This was how the camp of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno described the petition filed by a suspended lawyer urging the Solicitor General to challenge the top magistrate’s appointment. “We cannot help but view this latest ignorant attempt as part and parcel of the grand plan to harass, malign and humiliate the Chief Justice to force her to resign,” Sereno’s spokesperson Josa Deinla said in a statement after […]

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Due to “dilatory tactics” on unpaid GSIS loans, SC suspends lawyer who filed complaint vs Overall Deputy Ombudsman

(Eagle News)– The lawyer who filed the complaint that led to the 90-day suspension of Overall Deputy Ombudsman Melchor Arthur Carandang has been barred from practicing law for two years, due to a separate case involving gov’t loans he earlier made for two Pampanga properties. This was after the Supreme Court adopted the findings of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines’ Board of Governors that found Eligio Mallari guilty of resorting to “dilatory tactics” to prevent […]

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