
Senate eyes juvenile law amendments
A Senate panel will begin reviewing the Juvenile Justice Act (RA 9344) following widespread clamor to amend the two-decade-old law because of growing cases of…
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A Senate panel will begin reviewing the Juvenile Justice Act (RA 9344) following widespread clamor to amend the two-decade-old law because of growing cases of…
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The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said the two teenagers implicated in the fatal school shooting in Tacloban City are now under the…
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Data collected by the PNP show that children in conflict with the law account for only 1.72 percent of offenses committed in the country and that most of these…
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The law was crafted with compassion, recognizing that children are not yet fully formed.
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TACLOBAN CITY — House Minority Leader and 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino Libanan is calling for tighter restrictions on minors' access to social media…
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Twenty-one-year-old Xiaoling from central China’s Hunan province has attracted 163,000 followers to her Chinese social media account after posting photos and…
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She stressed that the remaining families will persist with the prosecution.
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Lowering the age of criminal responsibility may satisfy a public desire for a stronger response, but it does little to address the conditions that allowed the…
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday received the referral from the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) seeking a…
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Former lawmaker Mike Defensor has filed a rejoinder before the Department of Justice (DOJ) in response to the cyber libel complaint filed against him by former…
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He said the Tacloban shooting, involving 14- and 15-year-old students, exposed weaknesses in the current law.
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Now Congress wants an answer. A social media ban. CCTVs around schools. A violent game ban. And, after all that, Congress still has to face the thing no ban…
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The Juvenile Justice and Welfare Council (JJWC) on Thursday rejected claims that the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act gives minors a free pass to commit…
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Former senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Thursday filed a cyberlibel complaint before the Department of Justice (DOJ) against Sens. Alan Peter Cayetano and…
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The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) said the Department of Justice (DOJ) has found probable cause to file 44 criminal tax cases against former Department of…
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has found probable cause to file 44 criminal tax evasion cases against members of the so-called "BGC Boys" or Bulacan Group of…
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Following the killing of three students at the San Jose National High School in Tacloban City, Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian has renewed calls to ban…
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Criminal complaints have been filed against the 15-year-old student in connection with the shooting at San Jose National High School in Tacloban City that left…
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