SC magistrates Bernabe, Gesmundo, Hernando vie for chief justice post
Published March 1, 2021 2:15pm Three Supreme Court (SC) magistrates are eyeing to succeed Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta who will retire later this month. SC spokesperson Brian Keith Hosaka said Monday that only Justices Estela Perlas Bernabe, Alexander Gesmundo and Ramon Paul Hernando completed the requirements for the application in compliance with the February 26 deadline set by the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC). The public interview of the applicants will take place on March 10. Peralta will leave the judiciary on his 69th birthday on March 27, one year ahead of the mandatory retirement age for judges and justices.
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Leonen says he s currently not cut out for chief justice
Published January 29, 2021 4:48pm By NICOLE-ANNE C. LAGRIMAS, GMA News Supreme Court (SC) Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, one of the tribunal s most senior magistrates, on Friday said he believes he is currently not cut out for chief justice. Leonen will be automatically nominated for chief justice when Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta retires in March, one year ahead of his mandatory retirement age. No comment yet, Leonen said when asked if he will accept. I am honored to have been automatically nominated, but that is also a function of seniority. But of course in my mind I am looking at what I should do, and more likely, I am better at supporting a chief justice rather than being one. But as I said, no comment, he said at a press conference hosted by the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines.