CHR deplores Philhealth scam
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) deplored the alleged ‘ghost’ dialysis treatment scam involving the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. CHR spokesperson Jacqueline Ann de Guia stressed...
Sandiganbayan orders prosecutors to allow Enrile to inspect evidence in P173M plunder case
The Sandiganbayan has granted the motion of former Senator Juan Ponce Enrile to be shown and allowed to copy the evidence of the prosecution in his P172.8-million plunder...
Mendoza is puzzled why SC ain’t punishing Justices who fail to rule on cases within 24-month deadline
Super abogado Estelito P. Mendoza is wondering if the Supreme Court will have the guts to penalize its members for not complying with a Constitutional requirement to resolve...
Lusot ang fall guy! Warehouse caretaker acquitted in P6.4B shabu case
The Valenzuela court has acquitted a warehouse caretaker implicated in the smuggling of P6.4-billion worth of crystal meth (shabu) in 2017, confirming his defense that he was merely a fall...
Las Piñas prosecutor junks Japanese tycoon’s perjury case against exec of Okada Manila owner
Japanese gaming tycoon Kazuo Okada has suffered yet another legal setback, as the Office of the City Prosecutor of Las Piñas dismissed the perjury complaint filed by his personal company against an...
Bawal ang tamad: Ex-CJ Panganiban says judiciary needs more hardworking judges to address backlog
In hiring more judges to address the "staggering" backlog of cases, former Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban concurred with one of his readers that the Surpreme Court should look beyond competence and...
SC denies GSIS Family Bank union’s petition to declare it a private bank and direct new CBA talks
The Supreme Court (SC) has ruled that GSIS Family Bank was a government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) required to follow the standardized compensation system for the state's corporate...
SC creates organizing committee for 2019 Legal Education Summit
Chief Justice Lucas P. Bersamin, upon his assumption into the top Supreme Court post, bared his four-point agenda which consists of the updating of the Rules of Court, purging the Bench of misfits...
