“This Court does not mean to put a price on a person 's life. The value of a human being is immeasurable. It is priceless. Yet the law, in all of its justice, deems it necessary that every injury -- more so the loss of life --be compensated in the form of damages.” This was stressed by the...
The Supreme Court (SC) has ruled that the Commission on Elections (Comelec) cannot be compelled to conduct manual counting of votes at the precinct level in the Automated Election System (AES) for local and national elections. It said that under Article IX-C, Section 232 of the Constitution, the...
The Supreme Court (SC) has denied the plea for a temporary restraining order (TRO) that could have preserved the original version of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee’s (SBRC) daft partial report on its probe on the multi-billion-peso anomalous flood control projects. Instead, the SC ordered the...
The Supreme Court (SC) did not issue a temporary restraining order (TRO) that could stop immediately the enforcement of the arrest order issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa. During its special full court session on Wednesday, May 13, the SC...
More than three years after taking and passing the 2022 Bar examinations, a successful examinee was finally allowed to take her oath as a lawyer by the Supreme Court (SC). In a decision, the SC granted the petition of Marivic Antonio Taloma and directed the Office of the Bar Confidant (OBC) to set...
The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) said P60 billion has been returned to the state health insurer from the National Treasury, months after the transfer of the agency’s excess funds triggered controversy and legal challenges. In a statement released on Wednesday, May 6,...
The Supreme Court (SC) has started preparations for the setting up of a Shari’ah High Court in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) to resolve appeals from rulings handed down by the Shari’ah district courts. Decisions of the Shari’ah High Court are final and executory...
A criminal case for not providing support to a child in violation of the law on Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children (VAWC) cannot stand in court if it is not proven that a man is the father. With the ruling, the SC acquitted a man convicted by both the trial court and the Court of...
ILOILO CITY – The Supreme Court has junked the petition that questioned the real property tax increase by the Iloilo City government under the administration of Mayor Jerry Treñas. The SC en banc dismissed the March 2024 petition of the Riverside Group of Companies for failure to follow legal...
The Supreme Court (SC) has asked Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III to answer the petition filed by several lawyers to cite him in indirect contempt for alleged public criticisms of the High Court’s 2025 ruling that dismissed the impeachment complaint filed against Vice President Sara...
The Supreme Court (SC) has voided the 2018 dismissal by the Office of the President of then overall deputy Ombudsman Melchor Arthur H. Carandang who was acting as Ombudsman in the investigation of the charges filed against former president Rodrigo Duterte. The SC, in a decision written by Associate...
The Supreme Court (SC) has affirmed the life imprisonment and the fine of P5 million imposed on a large-scale illegal recruiter who hired and collected fees from several overseas job applicants in 2015 and 2016. Affirmed was the conviction for large-scale illegal recruitment of Elizabeth Espiritu...
