Tag: Estela Perlas Bernabe

SC Associate Justice Caguioa declines nomination for Chief Justice

Associate Justices Perlas-Bernabe, Peralta accept nomination; Reyes files application (Eagle News)–Supreme Court Associate Justice Alfredo Benjamin Caguioa has declined the en banc’s nomination of him to the post of Chief Justice, bringing to three the senior justices who have so far refused to be considered to the top magistrate post. Apart from Caguioa, of the five most senior justices who are automatically nominated to the post of Chief Justice, two others have already declined their […]

Five SC justices make it to JBC short list for Chief Justice post

(Eagle News) — The Judicial and Bar Council on Friday, Nov. 23, released its short list of nominees for the post of Chief Justice for transmittal to the President. The short list includes  Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, and Associate Justices Diosdado Peralta, Lucas Bersamin, Estela Perlas-Bernabe and Andres Reyes. All nominees were interviewed by the JBC behind closed doors. After the interviews, Carpio, Peralta, Bersamin and Bernabe got six votes; while Reyes got five. […]