The Supreme Court (SC) will administer starting on Sunday, May 24, the two-day 2026 Shari’ah Special Bar Examinations (SSBE) in four testing centers – one in Metro Manila and three in Mindanao. It was not known immediately how many examinees registered for the tests set at the New Era...
Starting this year, the month of June will be celebrated as “Judiciary Month” in commemoration of the founding of the Supreme Court (SC) 125 years ago on June 11, 1901. The month-long celebration is mandated under President Marcos’ Presidential Proclamation (PP) No. 1265 which amended the...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday, May 20, denied the plea of Senator Ronald “Bato” M. dela Rosa for a temporary restraining order (TRO) to prevent the execution by law enforcers of the arrest order issued against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC). It was not known immediately if the...
The Supreme Court (SC) has denied the petitions which challenged the 2016 Court of Appeals’ (CA) decision that stopped the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) from implementing its 2012 order which directed three telecommunications companies to reduce text messaging rates and refund...
“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...
