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By VIRGIL LOPEZ, GMA News Published April 21, 2021 2:35pm The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) on Wednesday backed the initiative of private citizens to distribute free food items and other essentials to the poor amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement, IBP president Domingo Cayosa said such an initiative should be praised and not be a subject of profiling by the authorities. “No law is violated when one feeds the hungry and helps the needy survive in this pandemic. Community...

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya, April 14(PIA) - Various assistance continue to pour in for the Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDLs) at the Provincial Jail due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Provincial Jail Warden Carmelo Andrada said they have temporarily suspended the regular visits of the PDLs relatives and loved ones as 67 of them including five Jail Guards have been infected with COVID-19 as of April 12. The infected PDLs who are suffering mild effects of the COVID-19 have been isolated at the Boy Scout...

By VIRGIL LOPEZ, GMA News Published April 7, 2021 11:30am The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) has asked the government to include lawyers in the priority groups under the COVID-19 vaccination program. In a letter to National Task Force Against COVID-19 chairman and Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, IBP president Domingo Cayosa said lawyers should be part of the priority population group A4, which includes frontline personnel in essential sectors, uniformed personnel, and local o...

Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) This was the plea aired by the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) in a letter to the chairman of the National Task Force against COVID-19 (NTF) and Defense Secretary Delfin N. Lorenzana. In his letter last March 30, IBP President Domingo Egon Q. Cayosa requested Lorenzana that “lawyers be included in the priority population group A4 (frontline personnel in essential public and private sectors that are directly client fa...

Alexander Gesmundo, who frequently votes in Duterte’s favor, is new SC chief justice First appointed to the Supreme Court in August 2017, Gesmundo is expected to serve as chief justice until November 2026. He is a hardworking magistrate who advocates for reforms in the judiciary, but some of his decisions have shaken heads. BY CARMELA FONBUENA April 5, 2021 | 12:00:00 AM President Rodrigo Duterte...

Record number of Filipino lawyers killed under Duterte’s watch Ted Regencia © The Philippine Supreme Court, whose members are now mostly Duterte appointees, denounced the killing... The Philippine Supreme Court, whose members are now mostly Duterte appointees, denounced the killings and harassments of lawyers as an assault on the judiciary [File: Francis Malasig/EPA] On a late Wednesday evening in early March, Filipino human rights lawyer Angelo Karlo Guillen headed home af...

On a late Wednesday evening in early March, Filipino human rights lawyer Angelo Karlo Guillen headed home after a long day at his office in Iloilo, a city renowned for its well-preserved Spanish-era homes in the central Philippine island of Panay. As he walked to his residence, two men wearing ski masks appeared and started attacking him. The assailants took his backpack, which contained his laptop and court case files, but left his wallet and smartphone untouched, according to the police repor...

Source: Amnesty International NZ The Philippine government must urgently put an end to the surge in often-deadly threats against judges and lawyers, Amnesty International said today, echoing the concerns of the country’s own Supreme Court and Senate this week.   “When the country’s own Supreme Court and Senate are seized of the death toll facing the legal profession, it should be clear to everyone that the situation is disastrous,” said Emerlynne Gil, Amnesty Internationa...

SunStar unnamed March 17, 2021 TOP officials of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) met on Tuesday, March 17, 2021, to renew their commitment to work together and strengthen their communication line for faster resolution of the killings of judges, prosecutors and member of the legal profession. In a joint statement, the PNP and the IBP said they will collaborate with each other within the parameters of the Lawyer Security and Justice mem...

Supreme Court (SC) (MANILA BULLETIN) In a letter to Chief Justice Diosdado M. Peralta and the 14 other justices, Dean Edgardo Carlo Vistan II of the University of the Philippines College of Law cited not only the assaults and killings of lawyers but also their red-tagging. Vistan also told the SC of the attempt of a police officer to get from a trial court a list of lawyers representing suspected members of the Communist Terror Group (CTG). Several lawyers’ groups have said that more than 60...