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An acting judge serving in a temporary or acting capacity is said to be without a sala. [1] Some RTC branches have only a single sala. [17] Also cf. judges-at-large. SC N/A: English Supreme Court of the Philippines: SCC [14] See sharīʿah § Etymology: Arabic Sharia Circuit Court: SDC [14] See sharīʿah § Etymology: Arabic Sharia District ...
Sen. Jose W. Diokno, founder of the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG), founding chairman of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), former senator, and chief prosecutor of the Harry Stonehill case; Jose P. Laurel, former president and former associate justice; Jose Abad Santos, former chief justice; Neptali A. Gonzales, former Senate president
The National Prosecution Service is the official prosecutorial agency of the Philippines.Although it is an official prosecutorial agency, it is not autonomous from the Department of Justice unlike its counterparts such as the Philippine National Police, National Bureau of Investigation, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, National Intelligence Coordinating Agency, Bureau of Customs, Bureau of ...
Batas Pambansa Blg. 129, or The Judiciary Reorganization Act of 1980, and Republic Act No. 7691, or An Act Expanding the Jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Trial Courts, Municipal Trial Courts, and Municipal Circuit Trial Courts of 1994, as amended, gave the Regional Trial Courts the following jurisdiction: [4] [5] [6]
The Judicial and Bar Council (JBC; Filipino: Sangguniang Panghukuman at Pang-abogasya [1]) of the Philippines is a constitutionally-created body that recommends appointees for vacancies that may arise in the composition of the Supreme Court, other lower courts, and the Legal Education Board, and in the offices of the Ombudsman, Deputy Ombudsman and the Special Prosecutor.
House prosecutor Giorgidi Aggabao informed the court that they will drop from Article III the charges that Corona's independence was compromised when his wife Cristina accepted an appointment to the board of the Camp John Hay Development Corporation, but they will retain the alleged flip-flopping by Corona on the FASAP vs. Philippine Airlines case.
Reaction to the case was mixed. Before the verdict in April 2020, the annual Press Freedom Index report by Reporters Without Borders ranked the Philippines 136 out of 180 countries in terms of press freedom. [63] Historically, since the end of martial law under Ferdinand Marcos, the Philippines was regarded as having one of the most free ...
The complainant of the offending religious feelings case, Harriet Demetriou is a former Commission on Elections chair, a retired judge who worked for the Sandiganbayan and a devotee of the Marian apparition. [2] The sued party is Winston I. Cabading, a Roman Catholic priest and an exorcist under the Archdiocese of Manila. [2]