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SC administrator Midas Marquez included By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The Judicial and Bar Council on Monday, Oct. 1, released its list of nominees to the associate justice post left vacant by now-Ombudsman Samuel Martires in the Supreme Court. Leading the list were Court of Appeals Justices Japar Dimaampao at Ramon Garcia with six votes each; CA Justices Manuel Barrios, Apolinario Bruselas Jr. and Rosmari Carandang with five votes each; and CA Justices Edgardo […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service Supreme Court Associate Justice Teresita de Castro is the new Chief Justice. This is according to Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, who said he was informed Special Assistant to the President Bong Go himself announced publicly President Rodrigo Duterte’s choice, and that her appointment will be officially released by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea on Tuesday. De Castro was chosen by President Duterte from the shortlist submitted by the Judicial […]
By Moira Encina Eagle New Service The Judicial and Bar Council on Friday, Aug. 24, shortlisted three Supreme Court associate justices for the post of Chief Justice. According to Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, JBC voting member, Associate Justice Teresita Leonardo-De Castro got six votes; Associate Justice Diosdado Peralta, six; and Associate Justice Lucas Bersamin, five. Associate Justice Andres Reyes, Jr. and Davao court Judge Virginia Tejano-Ang were dropped from the shortlist. The shortlisting of De Castro, […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service For Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, the impeachment complaints filed against four candidates vying for the Chief Justice post have no effect on their nomination. In issuing the statement, Guevarra, also a member of the Judicial and Bar Council, contradicted Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman, who said Supreme Court Justices Lucas Bersamin, Teresita De Castro, Diosdado Peralta and Andres Reyes Jr. would be disqualified from vying for the post left vacated […]
(Eagle News) — The five candidates for the post of Chief Justice are slated to be interviewed by the Judicial and Bar Council today, Aug. 16. Facing the seven-man team are SC Associate Justices Teresita Leonardo-de Castro, Diosdado Peralta, Lucas Bersamin, Andres Reyes Jr., and Davao del Norte Regional Trial Court Branch 1 Judge Virginia Tejano-Ang. The interviews of Bersamin, De Castro and Peralta are scheduled from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. The interviews of […]
(Eagle News) — The Judicial and Bar Council will interview all five candidates for the position of Chief Justice on August 16. The Supreme Court’s Public Information Office said the public interview at the High Court’s division hearing room will start around 9 a.m. The proceedings, the SC said, will be live-streamed by its PIO. The Chief Justice post aspirants are SC Associate Justices Teresita Leonardo-de Castro, Diosdado Peralta, Lucas Bersamin and Andres Reyes Jr. […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The Judicial and Bar Council has come up with its shortlist of nominees to replace Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales, whose term is set to expire on July 26. Included in the shortlist were Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Martires, retired Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Edilberto Sandoval, and private law practitioner Felito Ramirez. Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III was disqualified. Only recently, Kilusang Pagbabago National Movement for Change secretary-general Monalie Dizon filed a graft […]
Also draws up shortlist of 8 nominees to Associate Justice post (Eagle News) — The Judicial and Bar Council has officially begun its search for a new Chief Justice. In a statement, the Supreme Court said this was one of the actions taken by the JBC in its regular meeting on June 25, Monday. According to the SC, the deadline for the filing and completion of all requirements was July 26. The SC said the […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service Supreme Court Administrator Jose Midas Marquez is in the High Court en banc’s shortlist of nominees to replace Associate Justice Presbitero Velasco Jr., who will retire in August. Marquez garnered the second-most number of votes from the SC magistrates, who exercised their power to vote for their nominees after a respite from such an exercise when Maria Lourdes Sereno was. Chief Justice and ex-officio chairperson of the Judicial and […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III on Wednesday, June 20, said he does not have pending cases in the Ombudsman. Bello made the statement during the Judicial and Bar Council’s public interview of applicants to the Ombudsman post. Under JBC rules, anyone with a pending case is disqualified from being nominated to judicial posts, or as Ombudsman and Deputy Ombudsman. “Fortunately, I found out, Your Honor, that the case has […]
(Eagle News)–The Judicial and Bar Council will wait for the final ruling on the quo warranto petition filed against Maria Lourdes Sereno before it proceeds with the search for a new Chief Justice. This was confirmed by Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, an ex-officio member of the JBC. Voting 8-6, the Supreme Court granted the petition filed by Solicitor General Jose Calida against Sereno, thereby nullifying her appointment as chief magistrate. In making the decision, the […]
(Eagle News) – Supreme Court Associate Justice Teresita J. Leonardo-De Castro has been nominated to replace Ombudsman Conchita Morales, who is set to end her 7-year term in July. In nominating De Castro in a letter to the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) dated May 3, retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Arturo Brion said she had had long years of experience in the prosecution and the judiciary. “Through all these years, she has served the […]
