SC bans ‘fiesta-like activities’ in Bar exams

By Tetch Torres
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 05:01pm (Mla time) 08/31/2007
 
MANILA, Philippines — There will no longer be “fiesta-like” activities during the Bar examinations to be held for four consecutive Sundays in September, a Supreme Court justice said Friday.
A total of 5,783 aspiring lawyers will take the tests on September 2, 9, 16, and 23 at the De [...]

SC upholds Sandiganbayan ruling vs 2 gov’t engineers

By Tetch Torres
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 12:24pm (Mla time) 08/31/2007
 
MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court has upheld with finality the decision of the Sandiganbayan, which had convicted two engineers for graft from the then Ministry of Public Highways.
In the 1997 decision by the anti-graft court, Civil Engineers Simon Fernan Jr. and Expedito Torrevillas were found guilty in [...]

DoJ exec, others charged for graft before Ombudsman

By Tetch Torres
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 08:17pm (Mla time) 08/31/2007
 
MANILA, Philippines — (UPDATE) A ranking official of the Department of Justice (DOJ) is the subject of a complaint before the Office of the Ombudsman for alleged violation of Republic Act 3019 or the Anti-Graft Law in connection with a multi-million peso project to develop a government property [...]

Habeas data: SC’s new remedy vs killings, disappearances

By Tetch Torres
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 05:48pm (Mla time) 08/30/2007
 
MANILA, Philippines — Chief Justice Reynato Puno has vowed to institute a new legal remedy to the extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances plaguing the country.
In a speech at Silliman University in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Puno said aside from the writ of habeas corpus and writ of amparo, [...]

Ex-Parañaque mayor Joey Marquez convicted of graft

Actor posts P150,000 bail
By Tetch Torres
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 03:49pm (Mla time) 08/30/2007
 
(UPDATE 4) MANILA, Philippines — Actor and ex-Parañaque City mayor Joey Marquez has posted P150,000 bail after he and three others were convicted of graft by the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court, according to a report on local television.
At the same time, the report said Marquez has [...]

Sandigan, lower court allow Mrs. Marcos to go to China, HK

By Tetch Torres
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 03:55pm (Mla time) 08/30/2007
 
MANILA, Philippines — (UPDATE) Former First Lady Imelda Marcos can leave for China and Hong Kong for two weeks from August 31, the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court and a lower court ruled on Thursday.
In allowing Mrs. Marcos to leave to attend a convention and seek medical treatment for her [...]

$40-M gov’t textbook deal valid, SC rules with finality

By Tetch Torres
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 05:08pm (Mla time) 08/28/2007
 
MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court has upheld with finality the validity of the $40-million textbook supply contract awarded by the government through the Department of Education to text book distributors Vibal Publishing House, Inc. and Watana Phanit Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd.
In a one-page resolution, the high [...]

ARe you still going to screw around? Have you heard of the word “conscience”?

For a girl, when you say “yes” to a guy, it means you have become a couple. For a guy, when you pursue a girl, it only means she’s the one you want and when she said “yes,” you have become a couple. 
When you become a couple, it means there is certain exclusivity in it. [...]

(UPDATE) Estrada allowed to visit mother in hospital

 But former president has fever, says aide
By Tetch Torres
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 07:10pm (Mla time) 08/23/2007
 
QUEZON City, Philippines — The Sandiganbayan anti-graft court has allowed former president Joseph Estrada to leave detention to visit his mother, Doña Mary, at the San Juan Medical Center on Friday.
However, Estrada is unsure about whether he can push through with the [...]