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(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte appointed Court Administrator and former Supreme Court spokesperson Jose Midas Marquez as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. This was announced by acting presidential spokesperson Karlo Nograles on Tuesday, Nov. 16. Marquez, 55, was the 14th Court Administrator of the Supreme Court, and with his recent appointment, becomes the 192nd Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He replaced Justice Edgardo delos Santos who retired […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday, Dec. 4, came up with its own list of recommended candidates for the post of associate justice of the High Court. Included in the list submitted to the Judicial and Bar Council were Court of Appeals Justice Manuel Barrios, with seven votes; Justice Ramon Bato, Jr., with six votes; Justice Ramon Garcia, also with six votes; and SC Court Administrator Jose Midas Marquez, also with six votes. […]
(Eagle News) — Supreme Court administrator Midas Marquez has been named spokesperson of the High Court anew. Newly appointed Chief Justice Lucas Bersamin said that while he was “still looking for somebody whom I would like to sit in that position,” Marquez, who is vying for an associate justice post in the SC, can hold the post at present as the Chief Justice has known him for quite some time already. “I think he can help me […]
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 […]
(Eagle News)—-Davao Mayor Sara Duterte is opposing the bid of Supreme Court Administrator Midas Marquez as SC justice. This was revealed during Marquez’s Judicial and Bar Council interview on Wednesday, Sept. 26. Earlier, the mayor said she was opposing the appointment of an SC post aspirant who had been trying to have the case filed against her for punching of a court sheriff in 2011 dismissed. She had said as a result, he lacked the values needed of an […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service Supreme Court Administrator Jose Midas Marquez, who is applying as associate justice of the High Court, has found support from a judges’ organization. The Philippine Judges Association endorsed Marquez’s application to President Rodrigo Duterte, who is slated to pick the replacement of outgoing SC Associate Justice Presbitero J. Velasco, Jr. from a shortlist of eight nominees drafted by the Judicial and Bar Council. Apart from Marquez, the shortlist of nominees to […]
(Eagle News) — Supreme Court administrator Jose Midas Marquez is facing a graft and corruption complaint over his alleged misuse of $21.9 million worth of World Bank loans received by the High Court in 2003. Rizza Joy Laurea filed the case for violation of Section 3(e) of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act and Section 7(a) of the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees against Marquez before the Ombudsman on Monday, […]
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 […]
