The Supreme Court (SC) has ruled that Susan Areno Yap-Sulit is the duly-elected and proclaimed mayor of Tarlac City in the 2025 elections. In a full court decision written by Associate Justice Antonio T. Kho Jr. and made public on Friday, July 31, the SC declared permanent its status quo ante order...
The Supreme Court (SC) has affirmed the 2021 trial court ruling that declared unconstitutional Fisheries Administrative Order (FAO) No. 266 that mandated operators of big fishing vessels to report their catches through a vessel monitoring system (VMS) and an electronic reporting system (ERS) to...
The Supreme Court (SC) was asked anew to direct all courts in the country to use Filipino, the national language, in all proceedings during the celebration of the National Language Month on August 1 to 31. The plea was earlier aired by the Philippine Trial Lawyers Association, Inc. (PTLA) in a...
A Supreme Court (SC) justice has reminded law graduates that the country needs lawyers who understand not only the law but also the human realities that the law seeks to address. Associate Justice Henri Jean Paul B. Inting told the law graduates of the Rizal Memorial Colleges School of Law in Davao...
The 235 passers in the Special Shari’ah Bar Examinations (SSBE) took their oath as counselors-at-law during the Supreme Court’s (SC) special full court session at The Manila Hotel last week. Two other passers in the 2022 and 2025 SSBEs also took their oath. The 235 new counselors-at-law passed...
Will the Supreme Court (SC) direct all courts in the country to use Filipino, the national language, in all proceedings during the celebration of the National Language Month on August 1 to 31? The answer will be known on Wednesday, July 22, after the SC’s regular full court session. It was...
The Supreme Court (SC) has ruled that psychological violence committed against women and children through the use of social media that was sufficiently alleged in the complaint and proven in court should be imposed a higher penalty. In a resolution made public last July 16, the SC affirmed its...
The Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed the indirect contempt citations filed by several lawyers against a political analyst, a Party-List congressman, and a former presidential adviser for their comments on its 2025 decision that junked the 2024 impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara...
The Supreme Court (SC) will continue its oral arguments starting at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, July 14, on four consolidated petitions that challenged the constitutionality of the unprogrammed funds and special accounts in the 2024, 2025, and 2026 national budgets. Despite the pleas for a temporary...
The Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed the consolidated petitions that challenged the legality of the No Contact Apprehension Policy (NCAP) adopted by the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) in 2016 and revised in 2018. In a decision written by Associate Justice Rodil V. Zalameda, the SC said...
The Supreme Court (SC) has been asked to stop the ongoing trial of the impeachment case against Vice President Sara Z. Duterte. In an urgent motion and manifestation on two separate pending SC petitions Duterte herself filed and lodged by others led by Atty. Israelito P. Torreon, challenged was the...
The Supreme Court (SC) has declared constitutional Republic Act (RA) No. 12079 which grants value-added tax (VAT) refunds on certain purchases of non-resident foreign tourists in the country. The VAT refund applies to goods like clothing, apparel, electronics, gadgets, jewelry, food and others...
