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(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court of the Philippines on Wednesday, July 12, said the 2023 bar examinations will be administered in 14 local testing centers (LTCs) nationwide. These LTCs are: Luzon San Beda University University of Santo Tomas San Beda College University of the Philippines (UP) – Diliman Manila Adventist College UP – Bonifacio Global City Saint Louis University Cagayan State University University of Nueva Caeceres Visayas University of San Jose – Recoletos University […]
(Eagle News) — Almost 92 percent completed the 2022 bar exams, the Supreme Court said. According to the SC, 9,183 out of 10,006 bar examinees, in particular, completed the tests on Sunday afternoon. The resulting 91.77% attendance rate was lower than the 9,190 or 91.84% who took the tests on the third day. Meanwhile, 9,184 out of 10,006 or 91.78% of applicants were present on Sunday morning. The 2022 bar exams were held last Nov. […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday, July 5, ordered the deployment of a skeleton workforce in all courts under alert levels 1 and 2 from July 5 to 8. According to OCA Circular No. 166-2022, this was due to the reported continued increase in COVID-19 cases in the country and the possible surge in cases. “The skeleton workforce that a branch or judicial office will maintain for the above period will be subject […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has extended the physical closure of courts in the NCR Plus area. The SC also extended the period for the filing of pleadings and other court submissions in courts in the area covered by Metro Manila, Cavite, Laguna, Bulacan, and Rizal with the issuance of Administrative Circular No. 15-2021, in line with the extension of the enhanced community quarantine in those areas. According to the High Court, instead of […]
(Eagle News)–Courts nationwide will operate only until noon today, Oct. 30. Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta announced the half-day work schedule in Memorandum Order No. 71-2020. Covered by the memorandum are all first- and second-level courts, the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, the Sandiganbayan, the Court of Tax Appeals, and the Presidential Electoral Tribunal. “However, the Training Seminar of the Philippine Judicial Academy on the 2019 Amendments to the 197 Rules of Civil Procedure and […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Saturday, Aug. 15, welcomed the Supreme Court’s final decision allowing Mary Jane Veloso to testify against her alleged recruiters while she is imprisoned for drug trafficking in Indonesia. “Nagagalak po kami diyan dahil at least, makikita natin na si Ms. Veloso po ay naging biktima kung tatanggapin yung kaniyang testimoniya,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said. With the SC’s final decision on March 4, the Nueva Ecija court hearing the charges against Julius […]
(Eagle News) – Videoconferencing hearings will continue in areas under general community quarantine (GCQ), the Supreme Court (SC). In an announcement on Sunday, May 31, SC Court Administrator Midas Marquez cited the initial success of the videoconferencing hearings held in various authorized courts nationwide. More than 7,000 videoconferencing hearings were done in a month, and more than 22,000 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) were released during the lockdown period. “There have been already three convictions […]
(Eagle News) – All courts in areas under modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ), including Metro Manila, will remain physically closed until May 31, the Supreme Court announced on Thursday, May 14. “No walk-in requests shall be entertained in any of the offices of the courts in the said areas”, the SC said in Administrative Circular No. 39-2020. Instead, all inquiries on cases or transactions, including requests for documents and services, shall be coursed and acted […]
(Eagle News) – More than 4,600 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) have been released following the pilot testing of criminal case hearings via videoconferencing and the implementation of reduced bail, the Supreme Court (SC) announced on Monday, May 11. In a Twitter post, the SC’s Public Information Office (SC-PIO) said “4,683 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) have since been released from April 30 to May 8 after Chief Justice Peralta issued Administrative Circulars on (a) […]
(Eagle News) – The raffle of newly-filed cases in areas under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), which had been suspended amid the COVID-19 emergency, will resume via videoconferencing, the Supreme Court announced via circular issued by the Office of the Court Administrator (OCA) on Friday, May 8. Under OCA Circular No. 94-2020, “all courts in areas under ECQ shall henceforth resume the raffle of newly-filed cases, including “unraffled” cases through VIDEOCONFERENCING.” The circular noted that there […]
Associate Justices Perlas-Bernabe, Peralta accept nomination; Reyes files application (Eagle News)–Supreme Court Associate Justice Alfredo Benjamin Caguioa has declined the en banc’s nomination of him to the post of Chief Justice, bringing to three the senior justices who have so far refused to be considered to the top magistrate post. Apart from Caguioa, of the five most senior justices who are automatically nominated to the post of Chief Justice, two others have already declined their […]
(Eagle News)–The Integrated Bar of the Philippines and several fishermen have filed a motion to withdraw their Supreme Court petition that sought for the protection of the environment in the West Philippine Sea. The filing of the motion, which was announced by IBP national president Domingo Egon Cayosa in a statement, came after Solicitor General Jose Calida said 19 of the fishermen who had supposedly filed the petition that asked the SC to enjoin the […]
