An absolute privilege
FORMER socioeconomic planning secretary Romulo Neri scored a legal victory when the Supreme Court said the Senate could not compel him to answer three questions that it found to be covered by executive...
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When justices go bad: Breaching the code of judicial conduct
FOR transgressions of the Code of Judicial Conduct, committing “irregularities and improprieties” prejudicial to the integrity of the judiciary, five justices of the Court of Appeals were meted...
View ArticleSC not likely to reconsider ruling on secrecy of JPEPA negotiations
THE Supreme Court ruled last September 4 to reaffirm its March 25 decision upholding the claim of executive privilege by former socioeconomic planning secretary Romulo Neri over the three questions...
View ArticleSC ruling on MOA-AD and the prospects for ‘legalizing’ peace
THE Supreme Court voted 8-7 today to declare as unconstitutional the scuttled memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain (MOA-AD) between the Arroyo government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front...
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