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(Eagle News)– Supreme Court Associate Justice Lucas Bersamin has accepted his nomination as Chief Justice. Justice Menardo Guevarra confirmed this development on Wednesday, July 25. Guevarra is a member of the Judicial and Bar Council, which is tasked to screen the nominees. Under JBC rules, all five senior justices of the SC are automatically nominated to the Chief Justice post, but they have to formally accept the nomination. The other senior justices were Chief Justice […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court unanimously endorsed the appointment of Associate Justice Samuel Martires to the post of Ombudsman, a media briefer said on Tuesday, July 17. The briefer said Martires obtained 11 votes of the 12 justices who were present. Martires did not take part in the voting, while Associate Justices Alfredo Caguioa and Estela Perlas-Bernabe were not present. Only three applicants to the Ombudsman post received votes from the SC. Apart from […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has reprimanded ousted Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno after she lashed out at the justices while a quo warranto petition was pending against her. In a media briefer shown to the media on Tuesday, July 17, the SC said it gave Sereno a “stern warning a repetition of the same acts will merit a heavier penalty.” The SC issued a show-cause order against Sereno after she went around universities […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court (SC) announced on Friday, July 6, that it has disbarred a lawyer for faking a court decision and notarizing a document in the absence of its affiant. Dionisio Apoya Jr. was stripped of his bar membership on July 3 after authoring a fake decision to deceive his client Leah Taday that he won the legal battle for the nullification of her marriage, the SC said. “[The] respondent committed unlawful, dishonest, immoral, and […]
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 […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court’s junking of Maria Lourdes Sereno’s appeal of her ouster should be the “final chapter in the drawn-out drama” which she was in large part responsible for. This is according to Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo, who issued the statement after Senator Kiko Pangilinan said her ouster may still be appealed. “It behooves everybody to respect and bow to the majesty of the law. Dura lex sed lex (the law may be […]
(Eagle News) — Maria Lourdes Sereno’s statement that the House of Representatives “held hostage” the budget of the judiciary so she could be removed as chief magistrate “sounds cunningly crazy even from her!” House Majority Leader Rodolfo Fariñas said. In a statement, Fariñas said in the first place, the 15 impeachment hearings against Sereno were held by the House justice committee on Nov. 22, 2017 to Feb. 27, 2018 or “long after the HOR approved the (judiciary) […]
(Eagle News) — The Integrated Bar of the Philippines has asked the Supreme Court to reverse its decision that nullified Maria Lourdes Sereno’s appointment as Chief Justice, saying the decision “has taints of political considerations and personal biases,” among others. In a 16-page motion for reconsideration, the IBP–which earlier filed a motion to intervene in the Sereno case that was eventually junked by the High Court–also stressed that the issue of whether or not she […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court on Monday, June 11, declared a half-day suspension of work in all courts in the National Capital Region for that day. In an SC advisory, Acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio said the half-day work declaration, or work only until 12 noon, was “due to the inclement weather arising from continuous monsoon rains.” “For all other courts in other areas, (executive judges) are given discretion,” the advisory said. The Philippine […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima on Saturday, June 9, belied former Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre’s claim that the Supreme Court decision that affirmed the validity of her arrest on drug charges vindicated him. According to De Lima, “it only means that the Davao criminal syndicate that has captured state power in 2016 has not only been using the power of the executive department to eliminate their sworn enemies, like myself, but was also able to extend […]
(Eagle News) — The National Union of People’s Lawyers said on Friday, June 8, that it would seek the help of the Supreme Court after the Court of Appeals upheld its earlier decision to disallow Mary Jane Veloso, who is on death row in Indonesia, from testifying against her alleged illegal recruiters. In a statement posted on its Facebook account, the group said they “shall legally intervene as private prosecutors” and shall “revisit and exhaust […]
Urges SC to declare vacant all posts occupied by Duterte appointees By Moira Encina Eagle News Service Controversial figure Elly Pamatong on Wednesday, June 6, urged the Supreme Court to declare the election of President Rodrigo Duterte as chief executive as null, and to declare vacant the posts of his appointees. In filing the 6-page petition for quo warranto, Pamatong, who also ran for president at least two times and was tagged a nuisance candidate […]
