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The Department of Justice (Filipino: Kagawaran ng Katarungan, abbreviated as DOJ) is under the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for upholding the rule of law in the Philippines. It is the government's principal law agency, serving as its legal counsel and prosecution arm. [2]
The Office of the Solicitor General of the Philippines (Filipino: Tanggapan ng Taga-usig Panlahat), formerly known as the Bureau of Justice, is an independent and autonomous office attached to the Department of Justice. The OSG is headed by Menardo Guevarra. The Office of the Solicitor General is the "law firm" of the Republic of the Philippines.
Department of Justice: Kagawaran ng Katarungan: April 17, 1897; 127 years ago () Secretary of Justice: Jesus Crispin Remulla: Department of Labor and Employment: Kagawaran ng Paggawa at Empleo: December 8, 1933; 91 years ago () Secretary of Labor and Employment: Bienvenido Laguesma: Department of Migrant Workers
A veteran American police officer, Capt. Thomas Duggan of the New York Police Department (NYPD), and the only Filipino member of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Flaviano Guerrero, were hired by the Philippine government to organize the Division of Investigation of the Department of Justice. [6]
Among the current members of the court, Fernanda Lampas-Peralta is the longest-serving associate justice, with a tenure of 7,681 days (21 years, 10 days) as of February 19, 2025; the most recent justice to enter the court are Marietta S. Brawner-Cualing, Mary Josephine P. Lazaro, Ferdinand C. Baylon AND Emilio Rodolfo Y. Legaspi III August 29, 2024
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.
Solicitors general of the Philippines (25 P) Pages in category "Department of Justice (Philippines)" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
The Department of Grace and Justice was part of Pres. Emilio Aguinaldo's 1897 Naic Assembly Cabinet, with Severino de las Alas as the Director of Grace and Justice. However, the position was not in Aguinaldo's Biak-na-Bato Cabinet that followed months after. Emilio Aguinaldo [2] Katipunan revolutionary government: Secretary of Justice ...