While former president Rodrigo Duterte’s defense team at the International Criminal Court (ICC) will include a Filipino lawyer, Vice President Sara Duterte said that they have not shortlisted anyone yet. Vice President Sara Duterte and former president Rodrigo Duterte (Screenshot from Bong...
BACOLOD CITY – The Office of the Ombudsman has suspended two Negros Occidental provincial government officials for six months without pay due to conflict of interest when they engaged in private law practice in 2020. NEGROS Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson and Provincial Administrator Atty....
Senators on Wednesday, April 24, paid tribute to former Senator Rene Augusto Verceluz Saguisag, hailing him as a true patriot and an exemplary, honest public servant to many lawmakers. Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri said that even though Saguisag only served one term in the...
Lawyers' pleadings like motions that border on "incivility and intemperate ascriptions" are not allowed before a court of justice. In a resolution, the Sandiganbayan said most pleadings rely on "grace and fluidity of language" to "enthrall and enlighten" a court. With its declarations, the...
PEÑARRUBIA, Abra – A 31-year-old lawyer drowned in a spring in Sitio Matit, Barangay Patiao, this town, on Saturday, February 24. UNP College of Law-Law Student Government FB Police Capt. June Saliw-an, town chief of police, identified the victim as Princess Caroline Nichole Cancio Ibarra, of...
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna – Police nabbed a man who posed as a lawyer and a Malacanang official and extorted a total of P700,000 from tenants of a commercial complex involved in a legal dispute in Binan City, Laguna on Tuesday, February 6. The suspect was identified as Datu Marcus...
ALABEL, Sarangani – A blind law graduate from this town hurdled this year’s Bar examinations. Martsu Ressan Ladia signed the Roll of Attorneys during the oathtaking ceremony on December 22 conducted by the Supreme Court. LADIA (Photo via Joseph Jubelag) Ladia, who wants to become a trial...
Vice President Sara Duterte, a lawyer herself, congratulated the 2023 Bar passers, urging them to serve their fellow Filipinos and the country with humility and integrity and asking them to remain committed to uphold justice. The Supreme Court on Tuesday, Dec. 5, released the list of successful Bar...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) House Speaker Martin Romualdez wants the country’s latest Bar exam passers to bring back "a sense of decency" to the lawyer's profession. Thus, said Romualdez in a message Wednesday, Dec. 6 wherein...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has condemned the killing of lawyer Maria Saniata Liwliwa Gonzales-Alzate who was gunned down by two motorcycle-riding assailants in front of her house in Bangued, Abra last Sept. 14. Alzate was a former president of the Abra chapter of the Integrated Bar of the...
Abra Gov. Dominic B. Valera on Friday, September 15, condemned the murder of Atty. Maria Saniata Liwliwa Gonzales Alzate. “Our deepest and sincerest condolences to the bereaved family of Atty. Maria Saniata Liwliwa Gonzales Alzate,” Valera said in a Facebook post. “We strongly condemn the...
Twenty-six new lawyers who will be handling " vintage " agrarian cases has taken their oath of office. (Photo courtesy of DAR) The lawyers took their oath before Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Secretary Conrado M. Estrella III. According to Estrella, they will be assigned around the...
