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Davao lawmaker proposes law penalizing people abusing elderlies

Davao City 1st district Repres Paolo Duterte has moved to criminalize the act of exploiting, neglecting, or abusing the elderly.  (Unsplash) For this purpose, Duterte penned and filed House Bill (HB) No.4696, or the proposed Anti-Elder Abuse Act. If enacted, the measure will institu

FINDING ANSWERS The misconception still exists that once a law is passed, a crime that is sought to be proscribed will no longer happen. But it’s quite naive for one to expect that a law can stop or substantially reduce criminal acts if such law is not being strictly enforced, and if all other f

CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna – Smuggled fake cigarettes valued at about P4 million were seized from a Chinese national in an entrapment operation Barangay Del Remedios in San Pablo City, Laguna, on Wednesday, March 1. The Police Regional Office 4-A identified the suspect as Xinglong Zhang, 34. Xin

A 27-year-old man tagged as Taguig’s No. 10 most wanted person facing seven counts of qualified theft was arrested by the police in Cavite. The Taguig police identified the suspect as John Christian Pepanio, who was nabbed during manhunt operations by personnel from the Warrant and Subpoena Unit

A male security guard was arrested for wearing one of the uniforms of the Philippine National Police (PNP) unauthorized in Pasig City on Friday, Feb. 24. The report submitted to Pasig Police Chief Col. Celerino Sacro Jr. identified the suspect as “Mar,” 32, a security guard, and resident of Bara

The law that reduces the prison time of inmates on account of good behavior shouldn't benefit those convicted of heinous crimes. (Unsplash) This was the stand of Davao City 1st district Rep. Paolo Duterte and Benguet lone district Rep. Eric Yap, who jointly filed House Bill (HB) No.4649.Th

TO speed up administration of justice, the House of Representatives and the Senate are looking at several judicial reform bills to speed up the administration of justice. Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez issued a statement over the weekend following the recent 19th National Convention of Lawyers and the Golden Jubilee…

The House of Representatives intends to revisit the almost century old Revised Penal Code (RPC), or Act No. 3815. House Speaker Martin Romualdez, a lawyer and President of the Philippine Constitution Association (Philconsa), delivers his message before members of the Integrated Bar of the Ph

A bill seeking to decriminalize qualified theft of coconuts and reclassifying it as “simple theft” has been filed in the Senate. Sen. Risa Hontiveros, in filing Senate Bill No. 1871, said there is a need to decriminalize qualified theft under Article 310 of the Revised Penal Code to simple the