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In February of this year, the Attorney-General’s Department released the final report for their Privacy Act Review, which had extended over the previous two…

Submitted to the Senate Committee on National Defense and Security, Peace, Unification and Reconciliation, Committees on Foreign Relations, Public Works and Finance and Special Committee on Philippine Maritime and Admiralty Zones, that are conducting public hearings on the West Philippine Sea by the International Law and Relations Society of the…

Introduction - To many people’s surprise, it remains the case in Australia that individuals do not have a specific right to obtain compensatory damages for serious invasions of privacy,...

The Commission on Audit says no repayment is required because the funds were given in good faith

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) announced Wednesday it has recently granted land ownership to 88 program beneficiaries of a land transfer program in Metro Manila, as part of the 122nd Founding Anniversary celebration of the agency’s Land Management Bureau (LMB). This brings to 2,120 the total number of land ownership beneficiaries of

The Philippines Opens Its Doors: New Foreign Investment Opportunities. Legal News and Analysis - Philippines - FDI -

A lot of my childhood memories included family visits to Tagaytay City, the country’s other summer capital (after Baguio City), where we enjoyed the cool and crisp (average temperature is 22.7º Celsius) mountain air and a picture-pretty view of Taal Volcano from its original grand garden view deck—the English Tudor Mansion-style Taal Vista Hotel. A generation

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has affirmed the position of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the number of seats allowed for foreigners in corporations. The SEC said the number of seats allowed for foreigners in a partially nationalized corporation or in any corporation not considered public utilities should be based on its allowable

Some people worry about the adverse impact of the distribution of earnings to the stockholders by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP).  There is concern about the capacity of NGCP to provide for the much-needed capital expenditure build-up for infrastructure. This matter is taken care of by the…

THE 19th Congress may soon authorize the Bureau of Immigration (BI) to collect immigration fees, fines and penalties and to retain a third of all such collections for a proposed Immigration Trust Fund (ITF), a senior lawmaker said. Camarines Sur Rep. LRay F. Villafuerte said House Bill (HB) 8203 seeks…