Justice Secretary Leila De Lima on Wednesday accused the Court of Appeals of interfering with the Department of Justice (DOJ) following its ruling stopping the government from pursuing the P5-billion smuggling case against Phoenix Petroleum Philippines.
The Court of Appeals stopped the Quezon City regional trial court from acting on a case filed against a drug suspect five years after her arrest.
Lawyers of a drug suspect urged the Court of Appeals to nullify the case filed against their client more than five years after she was arrested.
The Court of Appeals told Justice Secretary Leila De Lima to explain why it has been five years and her department has yet to file a case against a suspected drug user who has been in detention for over five years.
The Court of Appeals dismissed the bid of Las Pinas Representative, now Team PNoy senatorial candidate Cynthia Villar to stop the implementation of the P14-billion reclamation project in Manila Bay.
The Supreme Court has stopped the implementation of the Court of Appeals ruling that ordered the dropping of syndicated estafa case against one of the accused in the questionable P6-billion loan given by Home Development Mutual Fund (HDMC/PagIbig) to buyers of Globe Asiatique.
The Court of Appeals stood pat in its earlier ruling allowing actor Aga Muhlach and wife Charlene Gonzales to stay in the list of voters in Camarines Sur, thus, paving way for his congressional bid in the area.
Tycoon Andrew Tan has reason to complain that his name was excluded in the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s list of the top 500 individual taxpayers in 2011.
Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon’s suggestion that the agency he heads be abolished and replaced with a private institution needs to be looked into.
She’s in a bind, but she’s not taking things sitting down, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said, amid a contempt suit filed against her by one of the principal suspects in the January 2011 murder of Palawan broadcaster Gerry Ortega.
The Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) on Thursday asked the Court of Appeals to reconsider its ruling absolving from criminal liability an executive of Sulpicio Lines.
The Court of Appeals has junked a motion by the Department of Justice to reconsider its November 2012 decision nullifying the department’s indictment of former Palawan Gov. Joel Reyes and his brother, Coron town ex-Mayor Mario Reyes, for the murder of broadcaster Gerardo “Doc Gerry” Ortega.
An accused in the murder of Ruby Rose Barrameda has asked a Court of Appeals Associate Justice to inhibit himself from handling the petition in connection with the discharge as accused of witness Manuel Montero.
