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In a precedent-setting decision, the Supreme Court (SC) has ruled that fathers can seek protection and custody orders before the courts against mothers who abuse their children in violation of the Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children (VAWC) law.
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THE Supreme Court (SC) has ordered the dismissal of the graft charges filed more than 30 years ago against former Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile and several known businessmen and entrepreneurs in the alleged siphoning of the P840.7 million in coconut levy funds.
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Senior Associate Justice Marvic M.V.F. Leonen
“Access to justice is the most important pillar" of the Supreme Court’s (SC) five-year Strategic Plan for Judicial Innovations (SPJI), Senior Associate Justice Marvic M.V. F. Leonen said.
During the inauguration of the Integrated Bar of the Phili
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Heads of the first three pillars of the country’s criminal justice system – law enforcement, prosecution, and judiciary – reassured their commitment to dispense criminal justice to all Filipinos swiftly and fairly.
Together in Baguio City last Jan. 11, Local Government Secretar
CJ Gesmundo at the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law graduation ceremonies on Dec. 10, 2022.
Chief Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo has reminded law graduates that “lawyering does not give entitlement and is not a license to feel superior.”
“Your degree and your title do not make you kn