Mandaue lawyers wanted Looc lot sale contract nullified

Jessa Mae O. Sotto 10/11/2018

  The Mandaue City Legal Office (CLO) has recommended to the City Council to nullify the contract of sale of the property in Barangay Looc. Lawyer August Lizer Malate said they found irregularities on the documents pertaining…

Lawyers, doctors preparing cases vs Duque over Dengvaxia mess

Inquirer.net 08/30/2018

PUBLIC Attorneys’ Office (PAO) forensics chief Dr. Erwin Erfe revealed yesterday that lawyers and doctors are preparing cases against Health Secretary Francisco Duque III to revoke his license as a doctor in connection with the alleged deaths…

NegOcc lawyers wear black arm-bands to demand justice for lawyer’s slay

Inquirer.net 08/29/2018

BACOLOD CITY — Members of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP)-Negros Occidental chapter are wearing black arm-bands for a week to demand justice for the killing of a lawyer known here for handling drug cases. The…

Ombud sacks 2 cops in lawyer’s slay, cancels retirement benefits

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 07/19/2018

The Office of the Ombudsman has forfeited the retirement benefits and annulled the civil service eligibility of two former police officials who were tagged in the ambush-slay of Cebuano lawyer Noel Archival and his two companions in…

14 years, 11 lawyers

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 07/02/2018

ELEVEN lawyers in Cebu had been killed since 2004. Aside from lawyer Salvador Solima, also killed this year was lawyer and Ronda Vice Mayor John Ungab who was gunned down by an unknown assailant outside the Cebu…

De Castro to new lawyers: Hard work, not politics, will get you ahead

Inquirer.net 06/01/2018

“RELY solely on your work’s merit to get ahead.” Associate Justice Teresita Leonardo De Castro relayed this message to 1,724 successful Bar examinees in her speech during their oath-taking ceremony at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC)…

Cebuano lawyers dismayed, shocked by SC ruling on Sereno

Jessa Mae O. Sotto 05/12/2018

They did the unthinkable. Some Cebuano lawyers expressed shock and disappointment over the historic ouster of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno on Friday by her very own colleagues in the Supreme Court. Columnist lawyer Gloria Estenzo-Ramos, who…

Lawyers, day, and night

Editorial 04/27/2018

At a time when the Philippine judiciary – in the words of former Chief Magistrate Hilario Davide Jr. – is suffering Calvary many times over, the words of the Cebu topnotchers in the 2017 bar examinations bring…

Lawyers ask UN to probe attacks on PH judiciary

Inquirer.net 04/19/2018

Groups led by the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) have asked the United Nations special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers to look into the Duterte administration’s actions that undermine the judiciary and threaten…

Cebuanos divided on Cha-Cha issue

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 03/01/2018

Cebuanos were divided on the issue of revising the 1987 Constitution but made for a substantial discussion at the second Senate public hearing held in Cebu City on Thursday. Of the 15 resource speakers who were invited…

Sereno airs concern over number of lawyers killed

Ador Vincent Mayol 02/21/2018

Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno has expressed concerns over the number of lawyers who were killed in an ambush over the past years. “I think everyone should be alarmed. For any country in the world, when killings…

Bring perpetrators to justice, lawyers urge

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 02/19/2018

Two lawyers’ groups in Cebu City have condemned the killing of prominent lawyer Jonnah John Ungab and called on authorities to identify and arrest the assailants and those behind the killing. Lawyer Mundlyn Misal-Martin, president of the…

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