[PODCAST] Law of Duterte Land: ICC hopes alive in Supreme Court ‘loss’
Jul 23, 2021 12:50 PM PHT
Rappler.com
The Supreme Court voted 15-0 to dismiss the petitions challenging President Rodrigo Duterte s unilateral withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
It s one of those types of decisions – the ruling is to dismiss the petitions, but the reasoning contains a lot for positive takeaways. Lawyers call the reasoning just obiter dictum, or an opinion that doesn t have legal weight.
What makes reasoning an obiter is debatable, said Professor Andre Palacios, who teaches Public International Law at the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Law and chairs the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) international law committee.