The writ of continuing mandamus is a remedy available only in environmental cases and thus cannot be used to compel the performance of particular acts relating to the anti-illegal drug operations of the government. Thus held the Supreme Court En Banc,...
A former chairperson of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) has been found administratively liable for unethical intervention in a case then pending before the Court of Appeals (CA). This was the ruling of the Supreme Court En Banc, in...
Shari’ah courts are autonomous bodies which do not need to lean on civil courts. Thus ruled the Supreme Court En Banc, through Associate Justice Rodil V. Zalameda, in its Decision granting the consolidated petitions filed under Rule 45 of the Rules of...
An assessment for deficiency taxes is not a prerequisite for collection of the taxpayer-accused’s civil liability for unpaid taxes in the criminal prosecution for tax law violations. Thus ruled the Supreme Court En Banc, in a Decision penned by Associate Justice...
