More than 30 inmates freed on ‘Judgment Day’
NEARLY two years after being jailed for stealing an electric fan, 42-year-old Raymund Roco was released on probation after pleading guilty to theft charges.
NEARLY two years after being jailed for stealing an electric fan, 42-year-old Raymund Roco was released on probation after pleading guilty to theft charges.
THE Supreme Court appointed four judges to take over the Cebu City courts handled by those dismissed from the service for involvement in a marriage scam.
Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno showed she was still on good terms with Associate Justice Teresita Leonardo-de Castro despite their heated exchanges in the past week.
Supreme Court Associate Justice Teresita Leonardo-De Castro has denied any rift with Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno.
A court stenographer lost her job after the Supreme Court approved recommendations that she be taken out of the rolls for unsatisfactory performance.
Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno on Tuesday called for unity among court officials and employees.
A lawyer on Monday asked the Supreme Court to order the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to conduct a re-investigation of Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT)’s alleged violation of the Constitution on foreign ownership.
They don’t know what they’re talking about. That’s how Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. reacted on Sunday to the opposition of two parties to being given fewer seats in the House of Representatives than they had won by polling the most number of votes in the May 13 party-list election.
The lawyer of party-list group Buhay Hayaan Yumabong (Buhay) on Friday protested the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) decision to allot only two congressional seats to it, after the Supreme Court directed the electoral body to “reserve seats” for the party-list group Senior Citizens.
Three groups that won May’s party-list election would each get one seat less for now as a result of the Supreme Court’s order to the Commission on Elections to reserve a seat, or seats, for a senior citizens’ party in the House of Representatives.
The Supreme Court stopped the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from disqualifying the Coalition of Senior Citizens in the Philippines and Abang Lingkod party-list groups, superseding a ruling by Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno that put on hold the proclamation of five remaining party-list winners in the May 13 polls.
The Supreme Court has moved the oral arguments on various petitions regarding Republic Act 10354 or the Act Providing for the National Policy on Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health or the RH law.
The Supreme Court dismissed the petition of youth leaders seeking to stop the freshly-approved tuition fee increase in 354 universities and colleges across the country.
