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Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered on Saturday, July 10, the creation of a Technical Working Group (TWG) that will study and incorporate the rules on the use of the body-worn cameras issued by the Supreme Court to the existing protocols of the...

It is, in the words of Chief Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo, that lawyers must “conduct themselves with honesty and integrity.”  These two virtues were extolled by the Chief Justice during the oath-taking of the new officers and members of the Board of Governors of the Integrated Bar of the...

VIEW FROM THE RIDGE Justice Arturo D. Brion, Chancellor, Philippine Judicial Academy From his very first public appearance during the Court’s 120 th founding anniversary last June 11, 2021, Chief Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo signaled in unmistakable terms his resolve to kickstart the process of...

(Speech of Chief Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo before the members of the Justice and Court Reporters Association, Justice Reporters Organization; officials and employees of the Judiciary on June 11, 2021.) I am pleased to speak before you today—my first chance to do so since my appointment as...

Chief Justice Diosdado M. Peralta retires tomorrow, March 27, after serving the Judiciary for more than 34 years as a prosecutor, a trial court judge, an associate justice and later presiding justice of the Sandiganbayan, and associate justice of the  Supreme Court and then as chief justice. He...