Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 11:25:24 +0000
An anti-crime group has agreed with the Ombudsman’s decision to withdraw charges filed against former President Benigno Aquino III for the Mamasapano incident in 2015.
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The Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) has opened the nomination for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court replacing newly-appointed Ombudsman Samuel Martires.
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Read moreINCOMING Ombudsman Samuel Martires vows to speed up the disposition of about 9,000 pending cases before his new office and to weed out corruption in government when he takes over from Conchita Carpio Morales, who will retire this week. In his final flag raising ceremony as associate justice of the Supreme Court on Monday, Martires […]
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Read moreNEWLY appointed Ombudsman Samuel Martires has vowed to be impartial on cases that would involve President Rodrigo Duterte and his family. Martires made the assurance when he visited the Office of the Ombudsman, a day after President Rodrigo Duterte announced his appointment. “If the evidence will show that there is probable cause for the filing […]
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Read moreSUPREME Court Associate Justice Samuel Martires leads the shortlist of candidates of the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) for Ombudsman, according to a source privy to the ongoing deliberations on Friday. The other two are Prosecutor Edilberto Sandoval and lawyer Felicito Ramirez, a friend of President Rodrigo Duterte. Justice Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd who applied […]
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Unless the Constitution is amended, the country is stuck with the rule that marriage is between a man and a woman alone, Solicitor General Jose Calida said Tuesday.
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A group of clergymen is opposing the bid of Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Martires to succeed Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales for his refusal to inhibit himself from the tribunal’s deliberations on the quo warranto petition that led to Maria Lourdes Sereno’s ouster as Chief Justice.
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