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(Eagle News) — Opposition senators on Thursday, Aug. 23, urged the Supreme Court to allow detained Senator Leila de Lima to participate in oral arguments on the petition against the Philippines’ planned withdrawal from the International Criminal Court, but this time, via an audio feed or live video from jail. Senators Francis Pangilinan, Franklin Drilon, Paolo Benigno Aquino IV, De Lima, Risa Hontiveros, and Antonio Trillanes IV made the request in a seven-page motion for […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service For Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, the impeachment complaints filed against four candidates vying for the Chief Justice post have no effect on their nomination. In issuing the statement, Guevarra, also a member of the Judicial and Bar Council, contradicted Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman, who said Supreme Court Justices Lucas Bersamin, Teresita De Castro, Diosdado Peralta and Andres Reyes Jr. would be disqualified from vying for the post left vacated […]
(Eagle News) — Sumugod sa Korte Suprema ang ilang bilang ng mga mangagawa mula sa public sector sa pangunguna ng grupong COURAGE upang tutulan ang Bureau of Internal Revenue Memorandum Order No. 23-2014 na nagsasabing buwisan ang mga benepisyo ng mga mangagawa. Naniniwala ang mga mangagawa na mali ang naturang memorandum dahil ang usapin aniya ng fringe benefits gaya ng 13th month pay, cash gift at iba pa ay pantulong sa mga empleyado at hindi […]
(Eagle News) — Detained Senator Leila de Lima has asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision denying her request she be allowed to participate in debates on the petition against the Philippines’ announced withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. In her motion for reconsideration, De Lima said she was only asking she be allowed to travel from Camp Crame, where she is detained on drug charges, to the SC in Manila and vice versa, for […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Friday, Aug. 17, said Solicitor General Jose Calida’s Supreme Court petition seeking to put a stop to an inquiry into the contracts entered into by his and his family’s security agency with the government has no legal basis. According to Trillanes, Calida, after all, “does not have any immunity from any legislative inquiry.” “Let me remind Mr. Calida that he is not a sacred cow,” Trillanes said. “Mark me, no […]
(Eagle News) — Solicitor General Jose Calida and his family have asked the Supreme Court to stop Senator Antonio Trillanes IV from conducting his own probe into their security agency’s contracts with the government. In seeking a temporary restraining order or a permanent injunction on the inquiry which starts on Aug. 16, Calida, his wife Milagros and children Josef, Michelle, and Mark Jorel said such a probe into Vigilant Investigative and Security Agency’s contracts will result in […]
(Eagle News) — The five candidates for the post of Chief Justice are slated to be interviewed by the Judicial and Bar Council today, Aug. 16. Facing the seven-man team are SC Associate Justices Teresita Leonardo-de Castro, Diosdado Peralta, Lucas Bersamin, Andres Reyes Jr., and Davao del Norte Regional Trial Court Branch 1 Judge Virginia Tejano-Ang. The interviews of Bersamin, De Castro and Peralta are scheduled from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. The interviews of […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has reset anew oral arguments on the petition against the Philippines’ announced withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. Instead of Aug. 14, they will be held on Aug. 28, the SC Public Information Office said. The SC said it would release a resolution on the same on Tuesday, Aug. 14. The postponement comes after the SC junked a petition filed by opposition senators for detained Senator Leila de Lima […]
(Eagle News) — Work in the Senate is suspended starting 11 am. because of inclement weather due to the enhanced southwest monsoon, according to Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III The House of Representatives earlier said work will be suspended, but hearings will still proceed. Earlier, Acting Supreme Court Chief Justice has suspended work in the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, Court of Tax Appeals, Sandiganbayan, and all courts under the National Capital Region starting […]
(Eagle News)—Executive judges in areas “severely affected” by the continuous rains and flooding such as Marikina may exercise their discretion to suspend work. This is according to Acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio, in a Twitter post on Monday, Aug. 13. Carpio issued the announcement as rains continued to pound parts of the country, with two weather disturbances outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility enhancing the southwest monsoon.
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Court of Appeals Justice Jose Reyes Jr. to the Supreme Court. Reyes replaces Associate Justice Presbitero Velasco, who retired this week. Court Administrator Midas Marquez, former Ateneo De Manila University College of Law Dean Cesar Villanueva and CA justices Apolinario Bruselas, Ramon Garcia, Rosmari Carandang, Ramon Hernando and Amy Lazaro-Javier had vied for the post. Reyes, a San Beda law graduate like Duterte, was executive judge of the Rizal Regional […]
(Eagle News) — Regional trial courts can soon issue orders preventing a person suspected of committing a crime from leaving the Philippines. This was after the Supreme Court, voting 11-1, ruled these courts could issue the precautionary hold departure order, which directs the Bureau of Immigration to stop any attempt to leave of an individual facing a crime where the minimum penalty prescribed by the law is at least six years and one day. The […]
