One of the reasons I maintain my ethics as a lawyer despite the many chances of committing unethical acts is my recognition that any unethical, immoral and/or illegal I do would reflect upon society’s view…
Assumptions: Each Region is assigned electoral votes equal to the number of district representatives plus 2. Each Region uses a winner-take-all approach to distribute its assigned electoral votes. Since there were 238 congressional districts and…
With all due respect to my lawyer-friends who are commenting on the issue, the validity of the “election” of Rep. Velasco as the new Speaker of the House of Representatives is not a matter of…
Kara showed me her group’s answer to the exercise in their Agrarian Reform Law and Social Legislation class after they had submitted it. The question talked about a person who bought a 50-hectare land (prior…
Dismantling the oligarchy is protecting the rights of labor to the full, securing full employment and equality of employment for all, and guaranteeing security of tenure, humane conditions of work, and a living wage for…
Understanding the purpose of torture is already half of surviving it. Always remember that the goal of the torturer is not to kill you, but to compel you to disclose information. Corrorarily, it is in…
Theoretically, because there are only 178k quarantine passes (QP), half of them odd and half of them even, at any given time during Monday to Saturday, the max allowed number of people outside their residences…
The authority of the Interagency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID or IATF-MEID) to impose guidelines on the implementation of community quarantine is by virtue of the President’s Executive Order No.…
Note: The following text, with a few modifications, was issued by some organizations based in Cebu City. We, the undersigned leaders of each listed civil society organization in Cebu City, in our own capacity and…
Pangutana ra ni akoa ha, under what authority can a police city director (officer-in-charge at that) cancel the authority of quarantine passes issued by the city government upon authority of the city mayor backed by…