Credit to Author: acerojano| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 10:08:27 +0000
Former Senator Rene Saguisag has a distorted understanding of the Office of the Solicitor General’s (OSG) mandate that it would be best for him to keep it to himself, the OSG said in a statement Friday.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 07:12:01 +0000
The OSG has defended its move to represent the PNP-CIDG in the filing of a sedition complaint against Vice President Leni Robredo and 35 others.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 13:29:18 +0000
The Court of Appeals has submitted for resolution the writ of amparo case filed by the NUPL against the military and the police.
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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: dmorcoso| Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 23:05:43 +0000
BUTUAN CITY—At least 140 victims of torture, summary execution and enforced disappearance during the Marcos dictatorship or members of their families each received a check for P77,500 as part of the compensation awarded by a Hawaii district court, which ruled on a class action suit against the estate of Ferdinand Marcos. It was the third […]
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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: mfrialde| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 04:02:02 +0000
The killing of thousands during police drug operations “is a matter of grave concern,” said the Supreme Court.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 11:21:38 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Leni Robredo on Sunday said the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) seems to be serving the Marcos family over the best interest of the country following its decision to block the settlement deal which would give martial law victims P77,000 each. Robredo expressed her disappointment over the decision of […]
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 03:55:33 +0000
The distribution of the $13.75 million settlement proceeds to Martial Law victims will push through despite the continuous efforts of the OSG
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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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