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Mendoza's legal victories include the junking of the disqualification case vs Marcos Jr. and the plunder acquittals of Arroyo and Revilla

Philippine Canadian Inquirer PBBM extends employment of COS, JO gov’t workers till end-2025 News

THE Department of Justice (DOJ) upheld the right of local government units (LGU) to enter into sisterhood twinning programs that allow the deployment of seasonal workers to other countries.  However, the DOJ stressed that employment contracts of the seasonal workers should comply with requirements under the law and regulations issued…

The Congress is near writing a new law bumping up the teaching supplies’ allowance of some 800,000 public school teachers, according to Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte. This developed as the House of Representatives approved on third and final reading earlier this December the proposed Teaching Supplies Allowance Act, which…

The petitioners also ask that the Commission on Audit be allowed to review the Vice President's 2022 confidential funds 'in the same manner as it audits public funds'

'Eh, walang batas providing for reasonable limitations.... So we have the right to demand full disclosure,' retired Supreme Court senior associate justice Antonio Carpio says

FORMER Associate Justice Antonio Carpio along with several lawyers and law students on Wednesday filed another petition before the Supreme Court seeking to declare unconstitutional the allocation, release and disbursement of confidential funds to various government agencies and departments. The petitioners also sought the issuance of a temporary restraining order…

This is the second petition challenging confidential funds. Another group of lawyers had already questioned the transfer of P125-million confidential funds to Vice President Sara Duterte in 2022.

MANILA, Philippines: A petition seeking the declaration of the confidential and intelligence funds unconstitutional has been filed before the Supreme Court.

(UPDATE) VICE President Sara Duterte has given up her offices request for a P500-million confidential fund (CF) to end the divisiveness it has generated.