Aquino appoints Malolos judge Ringpis-Liban as associate justice of tax court
By Michael Lim Ubac
President Aquino has appointed Malolos Judge Maria Belen Ringpis-Liban as associate justice of the Court of Tax Appeals.
President Aquino has appointed Malolos Judge Maria Belen Ringpis-Liban as associate justice of the Court of Tax Appeals.
A lawyer has been suspended by the Supreme Court from practicing law for two years after he was found to have done notary public work in Isabela province without proper authority.
The Philippines is aiming to speed up convictions in the country’s worst political massacre to ensure justice amid fears the trial could drag on for years, the country’s top justice official said.
The Supreme Court ruled that Sandiganbayan Associate Justice Gregory Ong is a Filipino citizen.
The official Saudi news agency said a court has convicted eight men on terrorism-related charges, including plotting attacks on an oil refinery.
A rape victim, who alleged she was sexually abused five years ago by two relatives of a Caloocan City politician, claimed on Thursday that the local court and the Department of Social Welfare Development (DSWD) have been either wittingly or unwittingly preventing the revival of the accusation by denying her access to records of her own case.
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.
When it opens later this month, four new metropolitan trial courts (MeTCs), stationed in the northern part of Caloocan City, are expected to relieve the clogged dockets of other MeTCs stationed about 15 kilometers south of the city proper.
A Quezon City court has ordered the arrest of five members of a family and two other persons in Barangay (village) Batasan Hills for their involvement in the 2011 murders of five of their neighbors over a land dispute.
Police have recaptured six of the 13 inmates who escaped from the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology facility in Sagay City, Negros Occidental last Wednesday.
President Benigno Aquino III has sent a message to Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chair Sixto Brillantes Jr., urging him not to go through with his threat to resign in protest against successive Supreme Court rulings adverse to the Comelec.
A policeman and a member of a community watch face murder charges in connection with the killing of an out-of-school youth whose body was found on a vacant lot in Quezon City.
A mayor has been accused of nepotism for allegedly appointing a relative in office.
