Setting its sights on solving the chronic congestion that has plagued the country’s jails and detention centers, the Justice Sector Coordinating Council (JSCC), composed of the Supreme Court (SC), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Department of the Interior and...
Recognizing the pressing need to fix a set of guidelines regarding an administrative agency’s power to issue warrants to prevent administrative agencies or officers from legally performing oppressive acts, the Supreme Court has laid down a set of conditions which must...
The dividing line between prosecutorial prerogatives and judicial discretion is why courts may overrule objections on plea bargaining on certain groups. Thus reiterated the Supreme Court’s Third Division in a Resolution penned by Associate Justice Maria Filomena D....
While the law may declare who are legitimate children, it cannot alter blood relationships. Thus held the Supreme Court, in a Decision penned by Senior Associate Justice Marvic M.V.F Leonen, denying the petition for review on certiorari filed by James Cua...
Following the effectivity of Republic Act No. (RA) 10641, the law allowing full entry of foreign banks in the Philippines, foreign banks may now foreclose and acquire mortgaged properties, subject to limitations. Thus reiterated the Supreme Court’s Second Division, in...
A court may sentence an accused found guilty of online libel to payment of fine only, rather than imprisonment. Thus held the Supreme Court En Banc, through Associate Justice Antonio T. Kho, Jr., as it denied the Petition for Review on Certiorari filed...
