THE LEGAL FRONT The June 30 papers carried as news President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s (PBBM) agreement with the statement of Dr. Aries Arugay of UP that “he should get a grade of ‘incomplete’ for his first year in office.” If this were a Court case, I would respectfully partially dissent to...
THE LEGAL FRONT The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word “crisis.” One brush stroke stands for danger, the other for opportunity. This usage suggests a double-sided view of a crisis: the danger that every crisis carries, and the opportunity that the response to danger opens up. ...
THE LEGAL FRONT Atty. Arturo D. Brion, Ll.B, Ll.M. (Part I) I shall soon return to the academe to teach law, a task that I have always loved. To my mind, teaching could be the best law-related activity – next only to law practice and to column writing – that a retired public servant can...
THE LEGAL FRONT Justice Arturo D. Brion As a voter wishing to wisely exercise my right of vote, I have been trying hard to understand our political parties and candidates. I finally gave up after the Comelec’s Nov. 15, 2021 candidate substitution deadline and simply decided to do my own...
THE LEGAL FRONT Justice Arturo D. Brion A legal reality that many fail to realize is that our Constitution is an ever-present moderating force that applies to all of us in our everyday lives as citizens. It is the legal instrument that defines and, many times, compels the balanced arrangement...
THE LEGAL FRONT Justice Arturo D. Brion Under A.M. No. 18-01-05-SC, the Supreme Court recently established the Judicial Integrity Board and the Corruption Prevention and Investigation Office “to promote integrity and curb corruption” within the judiciary. These are brand new high-level offices...
THE LEGAL FRONT Justice Arturo D. Brion (In Parts I and II of this series under Philja’s column “ Views from the Ridge,” I outlined the constitutional and statutory foundations and background of Philja’s new Pre-Judicature Program (PJP) – its contribution in assessing the qualifications...
VIEWS FROM THE RIDGE JUSTICE APOLINARIO D. BRUSELAS Chairman,6th Division, Court of Appeals Department Head, PhilJA Ethics Department In no other profession or calling is there a greater expectation of high ethical standards and values than in the position of a judge or justice in the judiciary....
Views from the Ridge Justice Arturo Brion, Chancellor, Philippine Judicial Academy The Philippine Judicial Academy ( PhilJA ) has often been asked how it can contribute to the judiciary’s quest for excellence through the legal education and training it provides to justices, judges and other...
Views from the Ridge Justice Arturo Brion, Chancellor, Philippine Judicial Academy School lessons learned in younger years often become dormant ideas unless incited back to memory by some current needs or activities. I found two such lessons, both from Physics that I took up years ago, as I looked...
VIEWS FROM THE RIDGE Justice Arturo D. Brion, Chancellor, Philippine Judicial Academy In contemplating judicial reforms, the questions that one inevitably encounters relate to the “what, when, where, and how” of the reforms or changes to be introduced. These questions themselves unavoidably...
VIEW FROM THE RIDGE Justice Arturo D. Brion, Chancellor, Philippine Judicial Academy My late father was an old judicial hand. He started as a Justice of the Peace,the term borrowed from the juez de paz of the old Spanish judicial system. He practiced law in the morning, served as a justice of the...
