Disbarment

Quo Vadis, De Lima?

August 16, 2012 | Opinion, PerryScope

De Lima in front of the Supreme Court building

PerryScope By Perry Diaz If Justice Secretary Leila de Lima were included in the shortlist of nominees for the position of Chief Justice, there was a very good chance that President Benigno “P-Noy” Aquino III could have appointed her to head the Supreme Court.  Indeed, P-Noy’s men tried to help her in more ways than once to clear all the obstacles that prevented her from Read More …

De Lima could be Aquino’s Corona

August 5, 2012 | Featured, Opinion

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BY AMADO P. MACASAET MALAYA By applying influence, if not pressure on the Integrated Bar of the Philippines to stop the investigation of Justice Secretary Leila De Lima in a disbarment case and seeing that the IBP may not oblige him, President Aquino is said to have made a “personal request” to the Judicial and Bar Council to include the name of the Justice Secretary Read More …

Backfire in De Lima disbarment case

December 5, 2011 | Opinion

BIG DEAL By Dan Mariano Manila Times After a lawyer filed a pleading with the Supreme Court to have the license of Justice Secretary Leila de Lima to practice law revoked, little has been heard from the case. The reason has less to do with the public’s incredulity—as far as the allegations of wrongdoing against De Lima are concerned—and more with how legal practitioners are Read More …