New lawyer joins Duterte ICC team
The International Criminal Court (ICC) Registry has announced the appointment of veteran lawyer Kate Gibson as associate counsel for former Philippine…
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) Registry has announced the appointment of veteran lawyer Kate Gibson as associate counsel for former Philippine…
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‘An international process, standing alone, cannot automatically operate as a Philippine warrant of arrest.’
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Cayetano managed to retain the Senate presidency amid reports of a coup over the weekend.
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Imagine spending decades becoming the highest judicial authority of the republic, then, during the country’s biggest moral crisis, everybody starts looking…
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‘This unconstitutional framework, where UAs are chained to the GAA, is so massive that it would not fit inside one suitcase, but several.’
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Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) are preparing to call 20 to 30 witnesses to testify orally when the crimes-against-humanity trial of…
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) Registry has appointed veteran lawyer Kate Gibson as associate counsel for former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte,…
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The Supreme Court (SC) has disbarred lawyer Eloisa D. Bayani after ruling that she misled a Syrian client into believing he could legally obtain a Philippine…
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Senator Ronald dela Rosa’s camp has drawn a hard constitutional line against the International Criminal Court, arguing before the Supreme Court (SC) that no…
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‘These were not acts of inaction, but adherence to the constitutional order, due process, and the rule of law.’
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) can tap the 125 state parties to the Rome Statute to enforce the arrest warrant against Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa…
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Malacañang said it will not interfere in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte, citing the constitutional principle of separation of powers…
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‘We already talked about it, that while [they] don’t have the numbers yet, let’s not delay the usual process in the Senate.’
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The cocktail circuit frequented by Nosy Tarsee is fizzing with a whisper campaign so coordinated it practically comes with talking points: that the country’s…
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The post-incident narrative scoped and framed what happened as an interventionist NBI overstepping the legal bounds of what it sought to accomplish within…
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As the old adage goes, the best laid plans will fail if executed by morons. And fail the plans did, in spectacular fashion.
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Once Trillanes inserted himself into the scene like an overcaffeinated stage actor, the arrest attempt ceased to look like a sober legal procedure but a…
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The ICC has no enforceable jurisdictional claim over Filipino nationals that the Philippine state is domestically obligated to honor.
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