While Cebu’s legal community continued to express various sentiments regarding the ongoing Senate hearings on extra judicial killings (EJK), emotions were perhaps strongest hours following the verbal clashes, Thursday, of Senators Leila de Lima and Allan Peter…
Both Cebu City officials and the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Cebu chapter had a point when they questioned why the Chinese consul and her husband who were tagged in the murder of two Chinese…
The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Cebu City chapter plans to create a special committee to focus on the case of slain lawyer Amelie Alegre. Lawyer Anabelle Pulvera-Page, IBP director, said officers of the lawyers’ group…
‘My son can never harm her’ More than a week after the ambush-killing of lawyer Amelie Ocañada-Alegre, her father-in-law spoke out yesterday, insisting that his son isn’t responsible for her murder. “We are innocent of all these…
IBP to set up aid fund after Lawyer Hidelito Pascual, president of the IBP Cebu City Chapter, condemned last Thursday’s ambush in Mandaue city and noted that several lawyers in Cebu have been killed in the past…
A cross section of the Cebuano community hailed President Benigno C. Aquino’s two-hour long State of the Nation Address (SONA) before a joint session of Congress Monday. President Aquino’s last SONA before he bows out of office…
Ambrosio Heyrosa had been detained at the Mandaue City Jail for nine years and three months after being caught with 0.01 grams of shabu in his possession. He could have been released pending resolution of his case,…
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima has ordered prosecutors in the city and province of Cebu to help unclog court dockets in the neighboring cities of Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu. Speeding up the disposal of cases will decongest the…
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima insisted that the Court of Appeals (CA) has no authority to stop the enforcement of the 60-day preventive suspension order on Makati City Mayor Jejomar Erwin “Junjun” Binay. In yesterday’s 15th National…
Judges and those working in the judiciary should always consider public perception of their conduct, which the public expects to be on a high plane. The most important quality of a good lawyer and a good judge…
President Benigno Aquino III can still bounce back and regain public confidence provided he apologizes to the Filipino people for the Mamasapano massacre that claimed the lives of 44 Special Action Force (SAF) police commandos. “The most…
Vice President Jejomar Binay used his son Makati City Mayor Junjun Binay’s current situatiion to emphasize that upholding the rule of law is a prerequisite to progress. Speaking before 2,000 lawyers around the country during the 15th…
