Published April 28, 2021, 4:49 PM
Supreme Court
The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered the gathering of documents which would pave the way for the payment of just compensation to the Hacienda Luisita, Inc. (HLI) owners whose 4,915 hectares of sugarcane plantation in Tarlac were distributed to 6,296 farm worker beneficiaries (FWBs).
Based on its July 5, 2011 decision, the SC directed HLI owners to turn over the land directly to the FWBs who will pay just compensation based on the 1989 land valuation of the property.
The 2011 ruling became final and executory on April 24, 2012 in a resolution written by then Associate Justice Presbitero J. Velasco Jr., now Marinduque governor.