The Judicial Branch of Government

[wolfram74]

nice one. hepatitis god

[mahadlikha]

with matching chant wang wang

[absinthe_888]

Bakit ang tahimik ng ABS-CBN at PDI dito???

Nung trivial issue na flag raising, media coverage, ngayong merong mas substantial issue, naging tahimik ata?

Aysows

[mahadlikha]

ehdi syempre "positive news" lang daw para sa mga tards


gawing viral na yan!

[mahadlikha]

Originally Posted by b_9904

Sereno railroads SC resolution

Sereno goes on sick leave, assigns Carpio as acting Chief Justice

Daang Matuwad update, pls. pass if not hepatitis zombified

[expatdingdong]

Originally Posted by Parchie

Let the truth come out in the open!

Mahirap talaga yung magka-amo ng walang alam!

eh mga tarangago pala kayo! Kasalanan ni GMA YAN!!!!!!


niyaahahahaha ibang klase talaga etong God's gift government to the Filipino people....

paano kaya nanaman UUTOIN ang mga Masa ng propaganda boys dito sa balitang eto

[wolfram74]

Originally Posted by absinthe_888

Bakit ang tahimik ng ABS-CBN at PDI dito???

Nung trivial issue na flag raising, media coverage, ngayong merong mas substantial issue, naging tahimik ata?

Aysows

napakatahimik rin ni Atty. ED, RonnieR, mwg, et al.

[amigo32]

ang hindi nya alam
si duwende ang utak ng yan

[NOVO ECIJANO]

http://Aquino’s CJ issues fake SC resolution

Abot langit ang kasalanan ng gobyerno ni Pnoy,patong patong na,ang lalakas ng loob gumawa ng kabalbalan.


Aquino’s CJ issues fake SC resolution
The Chief Justice of the Philippines is in hot legal and constitutional water.
President Aquino’s favorite Supreme Court Justice, Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno, the other day was caught treading the crooked path, as she was found to have issued an en banc resolution on her own, while stating that the high court en banc issued a resolution last Nov. 27, on the reopening of the Regional Trial Court Administration Office in Region 7, and that the Court resolved to ratify the action of the Chief Justice

[3cr]

Arroyo case for Leonen to decide
Manila Standard
http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/...st-for-leonen/

Newly appointed Associate Justice Marvic Leonen will be tested after the Supreme Court assigned him to decide the petition filed by former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

Now a Pampanga representative in the 15th Congress, Mrs. Arroyo seeks to stop her indictment before the Sandiganbayan for alleged plunder over Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office funds worth P365.9 million, which petition was passed to Leonen from the chamber of Associate Justice Estela Perlas-Bernabe.

Leonen, being the most junior, has received at least 20 randomly picked cases from each of the 14 more senior justices as part of their traditional “unloading of cases” to utilize the completion of the membership of the high tribunal to ease backlogs, said a source who declined to be identified being not designated as spokesperson of the judiciary.

As assigned justice, he will rule on the need to issue a temporary restraining order sought by Mrs. Arroyo to stop her Sandiganbayan trial.

Leonen is the third justice to handle Arroyo’s petition. The case filed last Oct. 24 was raffled off to Associate Justice Diosdado Peralta, who inhibited due to his relation to lawyer of a co-accused in the plunder case on a similar petition.

The case was re-raffled to Justice Bernabe until Leonen’s appointment to the tribunal on Nov. 21, amid the “unloading of cases” which is allowed in SC rules.

A day before Leonen’s appointment, the SC consolidated Mrs. Arroyo’s petition with similar petitions of her co-accused in the plunder case, former Commission on Audit Intelligence Fund Unit head Nilda Plaras and former PCSO director Raymundo Roquero. The case was also elevated from the third division to the SC sitting in full court.

The third division issued last Oct. 29 a TRO in favor of Plaras. Without any action on the Arroyos petition, the anti-graft court went on to arraign her on the same day.

[nayki]

Originally Posted by b_9904

Sereno railroads SC resolution

Sereno goes on sick leave, assigns Carpio as acting Chief Justice

This is not good kung totoo nga ito. Timing pa ata sick leave nya, ayaw maluto? I hope she explain her side asap.

[3cr]

Doesn't look good for CJ Sereno... might very well end up being a short-lived career for her. Pagnagkataon may pag-asa pang maging Chief Justice si Carpio (who was actually my choice for CJ)...

[3cr]

Ombudsman fires 12 DBP execs over P660-M 'behest loans'
InterAksyon
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/4...m-behest-loans

MANILA, Philippines – The Ombudsman has ordered the dismissal from the service of former and current executives of the Development Bank of The Philippines (DBP) for their alleged involvement in the granting of a total of P660 million in behest loans to Delta Ventures Resources, Inc. (DVRI) in 2009.

In a 54-page decision signed on November 21, 2012, Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales found the respondents administratively liable for grave misconduct and conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the service.

Morales also meted out to them the penalty of cancellation of their eligibility, forfeiture of their retirement benefits, perpetual disqualification from holding public office and barring them from taking civil service examinations.

The penalized respondents include former directors Benedicto Ernesto Bitonio Jr., Alexander Magno, Renato Velasco, and Franklin Velarde; former senior executive vice president (SEVP) and chief operating officer Edgardo Garcia; former SEVP and marketing head of the Branch Banking Sector (BBS) Jesus Guevarra II; former VP and Head of Regional Marketing Center-Metro Manila (RMC-MM) Crescencia Bundoc; BBS Manager for RMC-Western Luzon Arturo Baliton; RMC-WL Chief Accounts Management specialist Nelson Macatlang; RMC-MM Assistant Manager Marissa Cayetano; former AVP Teresita Tolentino; RMC-MM Assistant Manager Rodolfo Cerezo; and RMC-MM Assistant Manager Warren de Guzman.

Records showed the DBP extended two loan facilities in the amounts of P150 million and P510 million in April 2009 and November 2009, respectively, to DVRI.

Morales concluded that the loans were behest as they fit some of the criteria in determining whether a loan is behest, as laid down in Memorandum No. 61 dated 09 November 1992, namely:

a. It is under-collateralized.

b. The borrower corporation is undercapitalized.

c. There is direct or indirect endorsement by high government officials like presence of marginal notes.

d. Stockholders, officers or agents of the borrower corporation are identified as cronies.

e. The loan proceeds were used for a purpose that deviated from what was intended.

f. There is use of corporate layering.

g. THE project for which financing is sought is non-feasible.

h. Extra-ordinary speed attended the loan release.

“Respondents deliberately participated in the haphazard and hurried processing and granting of DVRI’s loans, though obviously aware of doubts regarding the borrower’s capacity to repay the loans, and the significant exposure facing he bank in relation thereto. Despite the irregularities surrounding the DBP-DVRI transactions, they insisted that the loans were not objectionable since the bank allegedly made a substantial profit there from xxx”, Morales said.

She also ruled that the administrative charges against former president and vice-chairman Reynaldo David; former DBP chairman Patricia Sto. Tomas; former directors Joseph Donato Pangilinan, Miguel Romero , Floro Oliveros , and Ramon Durano; former SEVP and head of Marketing Sector Armando Samia; former SEVP Rolando Geronimo; and former senior assistant vice president (SAVP) Perla Soleta be dismissed since their separation from the service preceded the filing of the complaint.

Earlier, Morales ordered the filing of Information for violation of Section 3(e) of Republic Act (RA) No. 3019 or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act against the respondents.

On the other hand, as in the criminal aspect of the case, the decision said the Office finds no substantial evidence to support the administrative charges against respondents Josephine Jaurigue, Justice Lady Flores and Benilda Tejada.

[nayki]

Originally Posted by 3cr

Doesn't look good for CJ Sereno... might very well end up being a short-lived career for her. Pagnagkataon may pag-asa pang maging Chief Justice si Carpio (who was actually my choice for CJ)...

Yup, I also prefer Carpio over Sereno.

[absinthe_888]

Nag abroad pa ata si CJ ngayon? Not sure

[3cr]

Yup halatang umiiwas nga kasi nagkasakit bigla tapos trip abroad naman ngayon. Can't run away from this though as she'll still have to face the music when she gets back! Hehehe...

[mahadlikha]

Originally Posted by 3cr

Doesn't look good for CJ Sereno... might very well end up being a short-lived career for her. Pagnagkataon may pag-asa pang maging Chief Justice si Carpio (who was actually my choice for CJ)...

you're making her a liar.



“I was not salivating to become Chief Justice. Excuse me," - Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales

[3cr]

SC junks nullification plea, Government owns Danding’s UCPB shares
Business Mirror
http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/ind...ification-plea

The Supreme Court (SC) has denied a petition filed by businessman Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco Jr. seeking nullification of a decision issued by the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan, which had affirmed the government’s ownership of Cojuangco’s shares in United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB).

In a ruling written by Associate Justice Presbitero Velasco Jr., the court en banc declared null and void the May 25, 1975, agreement between Philippine Coconut Administration (PCA) and Cojuangco that provides for the transfer, by way of compensation, to the businessman of 10-percent, or 7.22 percent out of the 72.2 percent, First United Bank or FUB (now UCPB) shares of stocks that the PCA purchased using the coconut-levy funds.

The court noted that Cojuangco, in effect, received public assets with a value then of P10.88 million, considering his admission that the PCA paid for the entire acquisition price for the 72.2 percent shares out of the Coconut Consumers Stabilization Fund (CCSF).

Thus, it said, the businessman gained for himself by acquiring property using public funds.

“Consequently, Cojuangco cannot stand to benefit by receiving, in his private capacity, 7.22 percent of the FUB shares without violating the constitutional caveat that public funds can only be used for public purpose. Accordingly, the 7.22 percent FUB [UCPB] shares that were given to Cojuangco shall be returned to the government, to be used ‘only for the benefit of all coconut farmers and for the development of the coconut industry,’” the court declared.

Also, the SC upheld the anti-graft court’s ruling declaring the government as owner of the 72.2 percent shares of UCBP paid by the PCA using coconut-levy funds.

“The UCPB shares of stock of the alleged fronts, nominees and dummies of defendant Eduardo M. Cojuangco Jr. which form part of the 72.2 percent shares of the FUB-UCPB paid for by the PCA with public funds later charged to the coconut-levy funds, particularly the CCSF, belong to the plaintiff Republic of the Philippines as their true and beneficial owner,” the court said.

In its 2004 resolution, the Sandiganbayan affirmed its partial summary judgment issued in July 2003 that held that the use by the PCA of coconut-levy funds to purchase the 72.2 percent of the UCPB shares in 1975 was illegal.

It said that Section 1 of Presidential Decree (PD) 755, which was cited by the PCA as authority for the use of the CCSF, was never published and hence “did not acquire binding force.”

Section 1 of PD 755 allows PCA to enter into an agreement for the acquisition of a commercial bank for the benefit of coconut farmers.

“We cannot, therefore, extend to the said agreement the status of a law. Consequently, we join the Sandiganbayan in its holding that the PCA-Cojuangco agreement shall be treated as an ordinary transaction between agreeing minds to be governed by contract law under the Civil Code,” the Supreme Court said.

[wolfram74]

Sereno overruled; SC suspends implementation of her order



MANILA, Philippines - The Supreme Court on Tuesday, December 11, put on hold the implementation of a resolution issued by Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno ordering the decentralization of court administration.

In an en banc session, the High Court decided to establish a committee that will first conduct a needs assessment study on the restoration of the regional court administrator's office or RCAO. The office is meant to decentralize certain SC administrative functions over judges.

The committee will be headed by Justice Jose Perez, who previously served as court administrator before being appointed to the SC in 2009.

"Everyone agrees to decentralization but we have to specify what functions can and cannot be decentralized," one SC insider told Rappler.

The RCAO was introduced in 2008 but its operations were stopped a year after following complaints of inefficiency from lower court judges.

In November this year, however, Sereno issued a resolution that called for its re-opening -- under the name Judicial Decentralized Office. But the other SC justices did not agree with her move.

Justice Teresita Leonardo De Castro issued a memorandum on December 3 recommending the recall of Sereno's resolution. De Castro argued that the resolution did not reflect the Court's deliberations on the matter, adding that the other magistrates opposed it because it usurped the Court's power to exercise administrative supervision over lower courts.

This is Sereno's first open battle with her colleagues, most of whom are associated with her former nemesis, dismissed Chief Justice Renato Corona. When she was appointed chief justice in August this year, Sereno, 52, was the youngest magistrate on the Court.

Another young justice, the 49-year-old Marvic Leonen, was appointed to the High Tribunal last month. - Rappler.com

[3cr]

Curious lang impeachable offense ba yung ginawa ni CJ Sereno? Pretty stupid mistake in her part to do what she did. She should know better dapat "Ingat-Ingat" talaga especially since she's not very well liked by her fellow colleagues. Wonder if this will lead to her downfall or just end up with her having a bruised ego for getting overturned.