The Supreme Court requested the late Herminio Disini, a partner of the late tyrant Ferdinand Marcos, to pay the public authority P1 billion in mild harm and P1 million in praiseworthy harms for his job in the granting of the $2.2-billion Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) venture to Westinghouse Electric Corp. The court expected Disini to take responsibility for applying …

The Previous international concerns secretary Albert del Rosario on Thursday reacted to President Rodrigo Duterte’s case that the past organization lost the West Philippine Sea to China, saying it was the president who ignored the arbitral win in 2016 in return for billions in speculations. President Rodrigo Duterte, in a recorded message and took punches at Del Rosario and ex-Supreme …

The Equity Secretary Menardo Guevarra said the spate of government authorities’ red-labeling has become upsetting as he supported enactment to condemn the act of connecting characters to socialist gatherings. In view of this,  Guevarra said in the previous few months, objections of red-labeling were regular. The Public Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict spokespersons Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade …

Defenders made a way as the members of the University of the Philippines College of Law faculty defended their former dean, Associate Justice Marvic Leonen of the Supreme Court, against an exclusion offer they considered uncorroborated. In order to throw the impeachment lawsuit and prioritizing more meaningful work for legislators the law professors advised the members of the House of …

METRO MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Court of Appeals Associate Justice Ricardo Rosario as Supreme Court associate justice. He will be replacing Associate Justice Jose Reyes, Jr., who retired last September. According to Supreme Court spokesman Brian Keith Hosaka, they have yet to received a copy of the appointment papers. Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea confirmed Rosario’s appointment on …

Once again, the Supreme Court came under fire for weakening the anti-graft movement, this time in a recent case analysis to reduce the graft sentence of former Democratic Party president Anas Urbaningrum, setting another precedent for other graft convicts to methodically pursue reduced sentences. A jury of three Supreme Court justices headed by Sunarto shortened Anas’ prison term from the …

The requirement to conduct coronavirus (Covid-19) rapid test was sued to the Supreme Court (MA) on Thursday, June 25 because it is considered beneficial to the hospital. The provision of the lawsuit being filed, that is the condition set out in the Circular of the Task Force for the Acceleration of Handling Covid-19 Number 7 of 2020 concerning Criteria and …

Rusdianto Matulatuwa as the Legal Counsel of the Indonesian Community for Dialysis Patients (KPCDI) as the plaintiff refusing the increase in health BPJS contributions hopes the government to carry out the Supreme Court’s decision not until 90 days after receiving a copy of the decision. That is based on the Supreme Court Regulation No. 1 of 2004 concerning the Right …

A number of parties considered the statement of the Deputy Chairperson of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Nurul Gufron to open court opportunities in absentia for ex Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) legislative candidates Harun Masiku and former Supreme Court (MA) Secretary Nurhadi to show KPK’s lack of seriousness in pursuing. Some parties criticized the statement. Lokataru Foundation Executive …