Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 21:27:17 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Leni Robredo on Sunday slammed Solicitor General Jose Calida, saying he should focus on addressing the more than a million backlog of cases in his office, rather than meddling in complaints that targeted critics of the administration.
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Read moreCredit to Author: racosta| Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 21:10:35 +0000
Tomas Osmeña Former Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña refused to leave his post quietly. Before his successor, Edgardo Labella, could formally take over on June 30, Osmeña took the mayor’s office with him quite literally, removing the glass dividers and even the floor tiles in the kitchen and the washroom. Osmeña claimed ownership of all […]
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 19:39:58 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — A critic of the Duterte administration’s South China Sea policy on the Supreme Court on Tuesday inhibited himself from hearing a petition to compel the government to protect three reefs in the West Philippine Sea and rehabilitate the marine environment around them that China had damaged.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 21:22:57 +0000
Chief Justice Lucas Bersamin has broken into the top 10 of the highest-paid government officials
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 10:58:24 +0000
SolGen Jose Calida has called on the resignation of the IBP president over Peter Joemel Advincula’s appearance at the group’s main office.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 21:34:29 +0000
The Supreme Court has castigated Solicitor General Jose Calida for choosing which police reports on the killings in President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2019 23:18:46 +0000
Another group of former political prisoners during the martial law regime of President Ferdinand Marcos has questioned the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) for blocking what should have been the third payout of reparation claims granted human rights victims by a Hawaii District Court.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 23:24:16 +0000
On Dec. 5, 2017, the Supreme Court ordered the Philippine National Police and Solicitor General Jose Calida to submit to the tribunal the official police investigation reports on the killings of more than 4,000 suspects in President Rodrigo Duter Duterte’s war on drugs.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 09:31:50 +0000
The Office of the Solicitor General gave the Supreme Court one condition before it can get its hands on the documents related to the government’s war on drugs — it’s not meant for sharing.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 08:40:23 +0000
Solicitor General Jose Calida said that the human rights groups are not entitled to all documents related to the government’s war on drugs.
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