The Senate justice and human rights committee has asked the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to try to regain people’s trust and respect since it is the prime investigation agency of the country. The call was made by Senator Francis Tolentino when he presided his committee hearing on the...
The Anti-Hazing Act of 2018 was enacted in the aftermath of the hazing death of University of Santo Tomas College of Law student Horacio Castillo III in a bid to prevent a similar fatal initiation rite from happening again. Five years after, however, hazing deaths still pervade — the latest victim...
Senators on Tuesday, March 7 took turns castigating an Adamson University official over the school’s perceived negligence in preventing hazing practices committed by fraternities and sororities not officially recognized by their institution. During the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights...
The House of Representatives Committee on Justice has approved a consolidated bill, which bats for the modernization of the Bureau of Immigration (BI). Seal of the Bureau of Immigration The Committee on Justice convened on Wednesday, Aug. 24 to deliberate on six bills that sought to modernize the...
Politicians and law enforcers who became drug lords should be meted the death penalty as first offenders as they had taken their oaths of office to follow and respect Philippine laws. Senator Robinhood Padilla emphasized this view after coming out in the open supporting the bill of Senator Ronald...
If given the chance, Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa said he will ask President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to certify the bill seeking the imposition of the death penalty for high-level drug traffickers as urgent. Senator Ronald "Bato" de la Rosa “Given the chance, I will do it. Kung...
The House Committee on Justice has endorsed the passage of a bill for the segregation of high-level convicts from other prisoners through the establishment of a separate facility for the former. Prison cell Majority Leader and Leyte Rep. Ferdinand Martin Romualdez, one of the principal authors of...
The vice chairman of the House Committee on Justice on Wednesday, Sept. 8 called on the Philippine National Police (PNP) to impose the stiffest penalty available on cops found guilty of extorting money from detainees set for release. Rep. Fidel Nograles Rizal 2nd District Rep. Fidel Nograles aired...
Leaders of the House of Representatives are batting for the increase in compensation of persons wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for a crime they did not commit. Prison cells Deputy Speakers Michael Romero (1PACMAN Partylist) and Evelina Escudero (2nd District, Sorsogon) called for the immediate...
Supreme Court Associate Justice Mario Victor Leonen will have to contend with another impeachment complaint next year when the current leadership in the House of Representatives is no longer in power. Atty. Larry Gadon “We can try another impeachment case next year in a more receptive House...
The House Committee on Justice on Thursday, Sept 2 unanimously approved the grant of Philippine citizenship to Elizabeth Eder Zobel de Ayala, a Colombian socio-civic entrepreneur and wife of Ayala Corp. Chairman and CEO Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala. Elizabeth Eder Zobel de Ayala addressing the...
The House of Representatives finally put to rest on Wedneday, Sept. 1 the impeachment case filed against Supreme Court Associate Justice Mario Victor F. Leonen. 2D2C4968-9979-40D6-B491-3BDF053A42C3 With 165 congressmen voting in the affirmative and one in the negative, the Lower Chamber adopted...
