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(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday, April 23, junked the consolidated petitions seeking to declare the position of Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales vacant. In junking the petitions filed last year by lawyer Rey Nathaniel Ifurung and former Metro Rail Transit Line 3 general manager Al Vitangcol III, the SC said Article XI, Section 11 of the 1987 Constitution and Sections 7 and 8(3) of Republic Act 6770 provide that the Ombudsman is appointed to a seven-year […]
(Eagle News)–A Court of Appeals justice was fined P100,000 for gambling, an act which government officials are banned from doing under the law. The Supreme Court meted out the penalty to Associate Justice Normandie Pizarro, who was seen gambling in a casino in Pampanga in pictures given to the High Court by an anonymous complainant. The complainant also said Pizarro himself admitted to going to a casino in 2009. “Judges should behave at all times so […]
House of Representatives’ stays the same (Eagle News)—-Net satisfaction ratings for the Senate, Cabinet and the Supreme Court fell by one grade, while that for the House of Representatives stayed the same in the latest Social Weather Stations survey. The First Quarter 2018 survey conducted from March 23 to 27, 2018, found that 61% were satisfied and 16% dissatisfied with the performance of the Senate; 45% satisfied and 24% dissatisfied with the Supreme Court of […]
(Eagle News) – “The call to impeach the Chief Justice did not originate from the Executive.” This was how Malacanang rebuked the move of various lawyers’ groups to submit a report to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Diego Sayan, complaining about President Rodrigo’s remarks against Chief Justice on leave Maria Lourdes Sereno. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque Jr., also noted that Sereno’s fellow justices in the Supreme Court […]
(Eagle News) – “A miscarriage of justice.” This was how Senator Leila De Lima described on Wednesday, April 18, the Supreme Court’s dismissal of her appeal of its previous decision that junked her petition questioning, among others, the validity of the drug charges filed against her. “After all, my legal team, led by former Solicitor General Florin T. Hilbay, has more than ably presented and argued our position that the allegations in the Information amount […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, April 13, called Supreme Court Chief Justice-on leave Maria Lourdes Sereno as “ignorant” and pretentious, and advised her to just resign. The President said that Sereno’s position as head of the Supreme Court until 2030, when she turns 70, is “too long for an ignorant Chief Justice.” Sereno, 58, was appointed as Chief Justice in August 2012 by former President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III when she […]
(Eagle News) – House Justice Committee chair Reynaldo Umali said on Thursday, April 12, that the conduct of impeachment proceedings against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno was a “priority” of the House of Representatives even before President Rodrigo Duterte’s call for Congress to “fast-track” the impeachment. “Iyan po talaga ang gagawin namin not because of the President’s pronouncement but because that is really a priority agenda of the House of Representatives,” Umali, who is also […]
(Eagle News)–A former Supreme Court justice believes impeachable officials can be subjected to quo warranto proceedings. Former Associate Justice Antonio Eduardo Nachura said the remedy “can be used to question the right of a public officer to continue holding a public office if there is an irregularity in the title to the public office.” Nachura’s position runs contrary to the position of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, who faces a quo warranto case, she can only […]
(Eagle News)–Results of the 2017 bar exams will be out on April 26. Supreme Court spokesperson Theodore Te made the announcement on Thursday, April 12. According to Te, 2017 bar exams committee chair Justice Lucas Bersamin will officially announce the results after a special en banc session to deliberate the same. He said the names of the successful examinees will also be flashed on the screen at the SC quadrangle. They will also be posted […]
Takes apparent dig at some SC justices, too (Eagle News) — Detained Senator Leila de Lima on Thursday, April 12, blamed a “shameless” Solicitor General Jose Calida for the “spectacle” in the Supreme Court during oral arguments on the quo warranto petition against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, and appeared to take a dig at some SC justices who she said “seemed to negate their possession of the cold impartiality of an unbiased judge.” “(The spectacle) […]
(EagleENews)– Chief Justice on-leave Maria Lourdes Sereno on Tuesday, April 10, reiterated her position she “consistently” filed her Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth, under heated questioning from Associate Justice Teresita de Castro during quo warranto proceedings against the top magistrate. “I maintain I filed my SALNs,” Sereno said, citing the Doblada doctrine. At one point, De Castro asked Sereno why she did not submit to the Judicial and Bar Council her SALNs “at […]
(Eagle News) — Associate Justice Teresita de Castro denied she rebuked Chief Justice-on leave Maria Lourdes Sereno when the latter reached out to her after she was appointed to the top magistrate post in 2012. During oral arguments on the quo warranto petition on Tuesday, April 10, De Castro, turning emotional, denied ever having the conversation with Sereno in which she was alleged to have told her: “I will never forgive you for accepting the […]
