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Balitalakayan interviews Integrated Bar of the Philippines Atty. Domingo Cayosa on Monday, June 21, 2021, on the move by retired International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to press the ICC to formally investigate Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte on alleged crimes against humanity committed in the country’s war against illegal drugs. (Eagle News Service)
(Eagle News)–The Integrated Bar of the Philippines and several fishermen have filed a motion to withdraw their Supreme Court petition that sought for the protection of the environment in the West Philippine Sea. The filing of the motion, which was announced by IBP national president Domingo Egon Cayosa in a statement, came after Solicitor General Jose Calida said 19 of the fishermen who had supposedly filed the petition that asked the SC to enjoin the […]
Presents sworn affidavits, video of fishermen in case, saying they had nothing to do with the petition during oral arguments before Supreme Court (Eagle News) – Solicitor General Jose Calida bared on Tuesday, July 9, that the fishermen in the Writ of Kalikasan petition filed by the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) had nothing to do at all with the petition but that their names were merely “used” by the IBP to fight the […]
(Eagle News) – The Integrated Bar of the Philippines has rejected the request for legal assistance of Peter Joemel Advincula, the man claiming to be the “Bikoy” in the video series which alleged that some members of President Rodrigo Duterte’s family had drug links. It said that the IBP’s National Center for Legal Aid (NCLA) had determined that Advincula had not met the standards it had set for legal assistance. “Mr. Advincula came to […]
(Eagle News) – The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) said that it had not yet accepted under its program for free legal aid the man who recently surfaced, claiming to the “Bikoy” in the viral videos who accused President Rodrigo Duterte’s family of having links with the illegal drug trade. IBP’s incoming president Domingo Cayosa said that Peter Joemel Advincula did not also inform the IBP that he would be holding a press conference […]
(Eagle News) — Despite their conflicting views over the Chico River Pump irrigation deal, everything is well between Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo and Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio. At least this is according to a picture released by Panelo that showed the two of them beside each other, posing and smiling, at the Integrated Bar of the Philippines National Convention in Iloilo. “We exchanged pleasantries,” Panelo said. According to Panelo, the two were members of […]
(Eagle News) — A group of lawyers in Cebu condemned the killing of a former prosecutor on Thursday, Jan. 19. “Justice cannot be attained by another act of injustice…Killing another person is not the resolution of a problem..Never can it be and never will it be,” Mundlyn Martin, Integrated Bar of the Philippines Cebu chapter president, said in a statement issued after the killing of Mary Ann Castro. Castro was shot dead by a still-unidentified […]
(Eagle News)—–The Integrated Bar of the Philippines has urged the Supreme Court to “take appropriate steps” for an “independent probe” of killings of lawyers since June 30, 2016. The IBP, through its president Abdiel Dan Fajardo, made the call after Ako Bicol partylist Rep. Rodel Batocabe, a lawyer, was shot dead in Albay over the weekend. His bodyguard was also killed. The IBP also urged the Supreme Court to convene a dialogue with its members, […]
(Eagle News) — The Integrated Bar of the Philippines on Thursday, April 26, belied lawyer Larry Gadon’s claims its officials receive allowances from the Supreme Court or from Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. In a statement, the IBP said “…the President, Executive Vice President, the members of the Board of Governors, all Chapter and Regional Officers of IBP…serve without any compensation or honorarium.” As such, the IBP said its pro-Sereno “principled stand” was because it […]
(Eagle News) – “The call to impeach the Chief Justice did not originate from the Executive.” This was how Malacanang rebuked the move of various lawyers’ groups to submit a report to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Diego Sayan, complaining about President Rodrigo’s remarks against Chief Justice on leave Maria Lourdes Sereno. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque Jr., also noted that Sereno’s fellow justices in the Supreme Court […]
(Eagle News) — High-ranking officials of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines on Friday asked the Supreme Court for them to be allowed to intervene to ask for the dismissal of the quo warranto petition filed against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. In seeking for the dismissal of the petition filed by Solicitor General Jose Calida, the IBP argued that it was “fatally flawed because the allegations therein are clear that the (Judicial and Bar […]
(Eagle News) — For the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, the only “constitutionally recognized mode” of removing a Chief Justice is impeachment. In a statement on Friday, the nationwide group of lawyers said “any artifice or device intended to solely target the Chief Justice and short-circuit the process would be repugnant to the Constitution..” “(It) must be slain on sight if our democratic processes are to be observed,” the IBP said. According to the group, […]
