During its session on August 22, 2023, the Court En Banc promulgated its 11-page Per Curiam Decision imposing the supreme penalty of disbarment on Atty. Ariel D. Maglalang for fabricating a supposed Order dated August 2, 2006 in Civil Case No....
To deprive an accused, who relied in good faith on his or her counsel, the right to appeal is a violation of the right to due process. Thus ruled the Supreme Court’s Third Division in a Decision, penned by Justice Samuel H. Gaerlan, granting the Petition for Review...
The Supreme Court En Banc, in a Decision penned by Justice Samuel H. Gaerlan, has denied the Petition for Certiorari and Mandamus filed by Clarlyn A. Legaspi, et al. against the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) in relation to the...
The right to privacy of lawyers is limited, especially when it comes to their social media accounts. Thus said the Supreme Court in a 26-page Per Curiam Decision as it reprimanded Atty. Morgan Rosales Nicanor (Atty. Nicanor), Atty. Joseph Marion Peña...
The Supreme Court has issued a writ of kalikasan against the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB), Ipilan Nickel Corporation (INC) and Celestial Nickel Mining and Exploration Corporation (Celestial...
Issues actually and directly resolved in a former suit cannot again be raised in any future case between the same parties involving a different cause of action. Thus ruled the Supreme Court’s Third Division, in a 22-page Decision penned by Justice Maria Filomena D....
