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Committee created to study decentralization needs By EVANGELINE DE VERA MALAYA COLLEAGUES of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno have officially overturned a supposed en banc resolution, which created a new judicial office in the Visayas, for having been promulgated without the consent of the en banc. Sereno earlier came under fire from fellow justices for coming out with Administrative Order No. 175 creating the new Read More …
By AMADO P. MACASAET MALAYA ‘It is necessary for all aspirants of court positions, again particularly the Chief Justice, to take the psychological test. Aspirants who flunk it should not be included in the short list submitted to the President.’ Chief Justice Maria Lourdes P. A. Sereno is known to have objected to psychological tests by the Judicial and Bar Council to evaluate aspirants for Read More …
By AMADO P. MACASAET MALAYA ‘The criminal cases that Mrs. Arroyo will likely face in the Court may have an easy sailing, no thanks to President Aquino who appointed a brilliant 52-year-old lawyer who will be Chief Justice for the next 18 years.’ One of several critical reasons President Aquino exerted his influence, and in fact may have directly pressured the House of Representatives to Read More …
BY NESTOR MATA MALAYA ‘These jaw-dropping words were spoken by Chief Justice Sereno before some justices, officials and employees of the Supreme Court last Monday.’ WHEN Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno was quoted in newspaper reports as having declared her appointment was “God’s will,” I thought at first it was a terminological inexactitude. But it turned out to be true. She did say those jaw-dropping Read More …
By Manila Standard Today We listened with disbelief this week as the newly minted chief justice declared that it was God’s will that she be appointed to head the highest court in the land. In remarks after her first flag-raising ceremony at the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno said that she, with the entire world as a witness, rose to her office not Read More …
Written by Tribune The Daily Tribune Joker: ‘God-appointed Sereno now speaking ex-cathedra’ Baring the psychiatric exam result of the claimed God-appointed chief justice, Lourdes Sereno, is her call, a senator-member of the Judicial Bar and Council said yesterday, while Sereno insists it is not her call but the JBC’s, where she sits as head, to release her psychiatric test results. At the same time mlitants Read More …
By Benjamin B. Pulta The Daily Tribune 7 senior SC justices snub flag-raising rites President Aquino may have been inadvertently promoted to being a Supreme Deity by a grateful Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno. Appearing before court employees at yesterday’s flag-raising ceremonies, her first as the newly appointed chief justice, Sereno called “the whole world” as the “witness” to her appointment by God. “The whole word Read More …
By Benjamin B. Pulta The Daily Tribune A public disclosure of the results of the psychiatric examinations of all applicants to the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) may be taken up by the Supreme Court (SC) today, sources in the high tribunal said. The source said the development arose after Associate Justice Arturo Brion’s request for the JBC to disclose his own psychiatric results was Read More …
By Alex P. Vidal LOS ANGELES, California – Plato was right when he insisted in the Republic that there is nothing that a man can do in public affairs that a woman cannot do equally well. The classicial Greek philosopher admitted certain respects in which a woman, simply by being a woman, is inferior in political activity to a man, but he thought that the Read More …
Says Judiciary needs to undergo reforms BY EVANGELINE DE VERA MALAYA AFTER shunning media interviews, Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno yesterday begged the indulgence of the public to allow the judiciary to undertake a “process of reflection” and for her to lead the Supreme Court in her own way. Speaking before Filipino and foreign delegates in the 23rd Presidents of Law Association in Asia (POLA), Read More …