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(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 camp of Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno has denied any hand in the filing of a third disbarment case against lawyer Larry Gadon, and in the letter urging the Solicitor General to file a quo warranto petition against Associate Justice Teresita de Castro. It was Gadon who filed an impeachment complaint against Sereno, while De Castro has been very vocal against Sereno. “Ang initiative ay ‘di nagmula sa kampo ni Chief […]
(Eagle News) — A third disbarment complaint was filed against lawyer Larry Gadon on Friday, April 20, over his demeanor toward pro-Sereno rallyists during oral arguments in Baguio on April 10. Zena Bernardo, Natividad Dela Cruz Natividad, Jose Mari Tomines Callueng, Nona Andaya-Castillo, Evangeline Hernandez, Jennifer Aiza Santaolaya, Faith Angelie Catalan, and Mark Vincent Lim, who described themselves as “concerned citizens, activists, community workers, mothers” said Gadon’s cursing at the protesters–which was caught in a picture–was […]
(Eagle News) — A private individual on Friday, April 20, urged Solicitor General Jose Calida to file a quo warranto petition against Associate Justice Teresita de Castro. In a four-page letter, Jocelyn Marie Acosta said De Castro also “lacked integrity” as she failed to submit the 39 Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth she was “bound to submit” in her stint in government since 1973. She said De Castro only submitted 15 SALNs when she […]
(Eagle News) — Senators Antonio Trillanes IV and Leila de Lima reiterated on Thursday, April 18, that the quo warranto petition filed against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno should be quashed for lack of jurisdiction. In their four-page manifestation filed before the Supreme Court, Trillanes and De Lima, through their lawyers, said the “hostile environment for adjudicating the present case has clouded the jurisdictional issue they raised in their opposition-in-intervention.” On April 4, Trillanes and […]
(Eagle News)–The Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) has called on the Supreme Court (SC) to dismiss the quo warranto petition against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. “We ask them (SC) to let the right process take us to the truth. At this point, the legal and proper process is impeachment and not quo warranto,” Ateneo president Jose Ramon Villarin said in a statement on Saturday, April 14. According to Villarin, the process of impeachment, which […]
(Eagle News) — Lawyer Larry Gadon on Friday, April 13, said he does not mind being disbarred for as long as Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno was removed from the post. Gadon issued the statement after an official of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines said his demeanor in Baguio during oral arguments on the quo warranto petition filed against Sereno could be a ground for an ethics complaint. Gadon, who has filed a separate […]
“Ignorant” Chief Justice Sereno has to go, he reiterates (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, April 13, said he was directing his partymates to fast-track the impeachment of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, and not Congress. The President made the clarification in a speech upon his arrival from his trip to China and Hong Kong at the Davao International Airport. “Who am I to direct the Senate? We are talking of impeachment. We […]
(Eagle News) — The Coalition for Justice on Thursday, April 12, slammed the refusal of five Supreme Court justices to inhibit from the quo warranto case against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. In a statement, the CFJ said the refusal of Associate Justices Teresita De Castro, Diosdado Peralta, Lucas Bersamin, Francis Jardeleza and Noel Tijam to recuse themselves was a “a clear repudiation of due process, established jurisprudence and the Code of Judicial Conduct.” “This […]
(Eagle News) — Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno may have found an ally in Associate Justice Marvic Leonen. On Wednesday, April 10, Leonen said that Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth were mere “tools” and “not a measure of integrity,” a conclusion he made after establishing that Sereno did not have the opportunity to “steal” from government coffers when she was on leave as a University of the Philippines professor from 2000 to 2006. […]
But Trillanes says senators can only be judged once they give their verdict By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service Senators on Tuesday, April 10, vowed to vote based on evidence if the venue for the impeachment process against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno was transferred to the Senate, but one remained skeptical. “Sa akin, walang epekto,” Senator Nancy Binay said, when asked to comment on President Rodrigo Duterte’s call for Sereno’s impeachment to be fast-tracked […]
(EagleENews)– Chief Justice on-leave Maria Lourdes Sereno on Tuesday, April 10, reiterated her position she “consistently” filed her Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth, under heated questioning from Associate Justice Teresita de Castro during quo warranto proceedings against the top magistrate. “I maintain I filed my SALNs,” Sereno said, citing the Doblada doctrine. At one point, De Castro asked Sereno why she did not submit to the Judicial and Bar Council her SALNs “at […]
