As a lawyer myself, I grieve for the heinous murder of two lady lawyers in Mindanao the other day. They were victims (46 in all) of the infamous politically-motivated Maguindanao massacre. Maguindanao is a Muslim-dominated province in the beautiful...
The greatest threats to democracy and the rule of law in the Philippines are not the communist and Muslim rebels or the Abbu Sayaff kidnappers or the Kuratong Baleleng-type organized criminal syndicates.
The real and insidious threats to Philippine...
One sign that the justice system of Singapore effectively works (as contrasted with that of the Philippines) is its ability to prosecute, convict, and punish all guilty persons regardless of their status and influence in society and its ability to...
In my previous blogs, I posted a letter of mine addressed to the Chief Justice Reynato Puno (who was then a senior associate justice) containing the results of my researches on the intent of the judiciary to study the application of the native Filipino...
In the recent administrative case of ATTY. HECTOR P. TEODOSIO vs. ROLANDO R. SOMOSA, et. al., En Banc, A.M. No. P-09-2610 (per curiam), August 13, 2009, the Philippine Supreme Court found the respondents, Sheriffs Gani Lacatan and Camilo Divinagracia,...
