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Jose Dominic F. Clavano IV

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Ombudsman building in Quezon City

A safe door for honest business

An office like this succeeds or fails on one question: will people trust it enough to come forward? That is why whistleblower protection is not a feature of…

Ombudsman’s receipts

Ombudsman’s receipts

The warning against paid comments and fake accounts is right, and it binds the Office to stay well clear of such tactics itself.

Investment Ombudsman, anyone?

Investment Ombudsman, anyone?

An economy built on padded contracts, ghost projects, and kickbacks is not a strong economy. It is running on borrowed time.

Making the world smaller for the corrupt

Making the world smaller for the corrupt

For too long, agencies have treated information as something to guard rather than share. Records sit in one office away from the office that needs them. That…

Only we can reach the child.

Only we can reach the child.

The influence of social media is not primarily a legal phenomenon. It is cultural: it lives in what we normalize, what we notice, and whether the friend who…

Art of the Information

Art of the Information

The craft lies in the statement of the acts or omissions. This is where months of preliminary investigation and thousands of pages of documents and affidavits…

SENATOR Panfilo Lacson

Hospital bed as holding cell

The revised Rules of Criminal Procedure under deliberation include custodial hearings — an open-court determination of house arrest, hospital arrest, or…

The case for a Philippine RICO

The case for a Philippine RICO

The idea is not new here. Anti-racketeering bills have been filed since the 1990s but they lapsed for want of urgency.

Recantation is not an eraser

Recantation is not an eraser

A retraction can be bought or coerced as easily as testimony can, often more easily, because by then the witness is isolated, exposed, and out of money.

SUPREME Court of the Philippines

A fugitive’svanishing refuge

From that moment he loses standing: he cannot participate, cannot seek relief, and regains his footing only by surrendering.