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The Supreme Court has disbarred a previously suspended lawyer and slapped her with a P35,000 fine for issuing bouncing checks and failing to pay her debt. In a decision promulgated on Tuesday, the high court en banc found lawyer Elerizza Libiran-Meteoro…
“Red-tagging” is a threat to people’s life, liberty, and security. Thus declared the Supreme Court in the case of, Deduro v. Maj. Gen. Vinoya (G.R. No. 254753, July 4, 2023) that overturned a lower court’s 2023 decision dismissing…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Over 400 national and foreign judges witnessed the first-ever signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the judicial branch of the Philippines and Australia on May 8, 2024, Wednesday, in Cebu City.…
MANILA CITY, Philippines — Termination of employment due to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is illegal, the Supreme Court (SC) said in a decision made public Wednesday. The case concerns an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) in Saudi Arabia. The…
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — Imagine adaptive algorithms translating courtroom exchanges from English to major Filipino dialects in real time for the benefit of litigants, or podcasts that explain the scope and impact of landmark decisions to average…
MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court revealed on Monday that 12,246 law graduates have enrolled for the 2024 Bar Examination. The deadline for the application to take the 2024 Bar Examination was last April 5. Applications are…
MANILA, Philippines — Loraine Badoy-Partosa, former spokesperson of the government’s anti-insurgency task force, has been found guilty by the Supreme Court (SC) of indirect contempt for red-tagging a Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) judge. Badoy was ordered…
The Supreme Court acquitted three former officials of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and a private contractor of graft charges in relation to the installation of allegedly overpriced lampposts during the 2007 Association of Southeast Asian Nations…
The Supreme Court has quashed a provision in the Social Security Act that disqualified individuals from receiving a survivorship pension if they became legitimate spouses only after the pensioners they married had suffered permanent disability. In a…
MANILA, Philippines – Four transportation groups led by Pasang Masda appeared before the Supreme Court on Monday, expressing their support for the government’s Public Utility Vehicle (PUV) modernization program. Pasang Masda, together with the Alliance of Concerned…
MANILA, Philippines —Law enforcers can arrest or detain without judicial warrant of arrest a person suspected of committing any acts defined in the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020 or any member of a group, organization or association…
Transport and commuter rights groups filed a petition on Wednesday urging the Supreme Court to halt and invalidate government orders mandating the consolidation of franchises by December 31 for the phasing out of traditional jeepneys under the…
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