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(Eagle News) — Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen on Thursday, May 27, welcomed the decision of the House of Representatives’ justice committee to junk the impeachment complaint filed against him. In a statement, Leonen said a “dismissal on the basis of the mere face of the complaint affirms the baselessness of the grounds raised.” He said it is an “act that powerfully speaks for itself,” and was also a reminder to “some” people “not to waste […]
(Eagle News) — The House of Representatives committee on justice on Thursday, May 27, unanimously junked the impeachment complaint filed against Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen. In junking the complaint filed by Edwin Cordevilla, secretary general of Filipino League of Advocates for Good Government, with a vote of 37-0-0, some lawmakers argued the complaint was based merely on hearsay. They noted the use of newspaper clippings to “back up” the claims in the complaint. […]
(Eagle News) — An impeachment complaint has been filed against Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen. The complaint filed by Edwin Codevilla, secretary general of the Filipino League of Advocates For Good Government, before the House of Representatives was for alleged culpable violation of the Constitution and betrayal of public trust. Codevilla was assisted by his lawyer Larry Gadon in the filing of the complaint, which was endorsed by Ilocos Norte Rep. Angelo Barba. It […]
(Eagle News)–The Presidential Electoral Tribunal has denied the motions for Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen to inhibit from proceedings stemming from the poll protest filed by former Senator Bongbong Marcos against Vice President Leni Robredo. The SC Public Information Office confirmed the SC, sitting as the PET on Tuesday, Nov. 17, denied the motions filed by Marcos and the Office of the Solicitor General. In calling for his inhibition, Marcos and the OSG separately […]
Mix of online and written exams also being looked into (Eagle News)–The next bar exams will not be conducted in the same manner as the previous ones. This was confirmed by 2020/2021 bar exams chair Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, who issued the bar bulletin after Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta told a budget hearing for the judiciary that the Supreme Court was “considering” online bar exams. Leonen confirmed that his office was specifically studying the possibility […]
(Eagle News)–The 2020 bar examinations will be held in November 2021. This is based on Bar Bulletin No. 13, S. 2020 signed by Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, the 2020 bar chairperson. The bulletin said this was approved by the court en banc. The venue and periods of the next bar exams will be announced in a separate bulletin. Leonen is also the 2021 bar exams chair, based on the bulletin. Earlier, the SC […]
(Eagle News) — The next bar exams will be held at a date not earlier than February 2021. This is according to the Office of the 2020 bar chair Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, which issued a bulletin on the exams which were supposed to be held in November this year. Bar bulletin No. 12 s. 2020 said the SC en banc “resolved to announce the schedule” of the next bar exams to a later date […]
(Eagle News)–Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen has declined the SC en banc’s nomination of him for the Chief Justice post. SC public information office chief Brian Hosaka said this was according to Leonen himself, in a statement sent to him after the en banc agreed to nominate the five most senior justices for the post to be left vacant by Chief Justice Lucas Bersamin when he retires on Oct. 17. In the statement, Leonen […]
(Eagle News)– “A legal abomination.” This was how Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen described the quo warranto petition that led the Supreme Court to decide to declare nullified the appointment of Maria Lourdes Sereno as Chief Justice on Friday, May 11. In a Tweet that likely quoted his dissenting opinion hours after the High Court decision was issued, Leonen said the petition filed by Solicitor General Jose Calida “should have been dismissed outright and […]
(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. […]
