The Integrated Bar of the Philippines will provide free legal aid to Comelec officials and voters in for the elections in all its chapters across the country.
Supreme Court (File photo) MANILA - The Supreme Court (SC) has extended until June next year all notarial commissions which would expire by the end of 2021. It was the third extension granted by the SC since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic last year. In a statement on Tuesday, the high court said that due to the continuing difficulties imposed by the health crisis, all notarial commissions set to expire will remain valid until the first half of 2022. "All notarial commissions granted in 2019 and whose validity had been previously extended until December 31, 2021 pursuant to the Court's December 1, 2020 and June 22, 2021 Resolutions are deemed further extended and shall thus remain valid for an additional period of six months beginning January 1, 2022 until June 30, 2022," the SC stated in a two-page resolution signed by en banc Clerk of Court Marife Lomibao-Cuevas. During the six-month period, notaries public whose terms are deemed extended pursuant to the latest resol
By VIRGIL LOPEZ, GMA News
Published April 21, 2021 2:35pm The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) on Wednesday backed the initiative of private citizens to distribute free food items and other essentials to the poor amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement, IBP president Domingo Cayosa said such an initiative should be praised and not be a subject of profiling by the authorities. “No law is violated when one feeds the hungry and helps the needy survive in this pandemic. Community pantries should be praised, not profiled; replicated, not red-tagged; supported, not stopped,” he said. Cayosa issued the statement following reports of alleged red tagging and profiling of some organizers by police officers in some parts of Metro Manila.