April 27, 2021 at 1:21 PM
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Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo
(Supreme Court website / FILE PHOTO)
Gesmundo will serve as the country’s 27th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, taking the place of Diosdado Peralta who retired early last month. He first secured a seat in the High Tribunal as Associate Justice in August 2017.
“The Palace confirms the President has signed the appointment of former Associate Justice Alexander Gesmundo as new Chief Justice of Supreme Court,” Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said in Filipino during a televised press briefing Monday.
Roque noted Gesmundo was not new in the judiciary, citing his years of service as Associate Justice in the Supreme Court as well as Associate Justice in the Sandiganbayan.
Duterte named Alexander Gesmundo as 27th Chief Justice Panelo By VIRGIL LOPEZ, GMA News
Published April 2, 2021 1:49pm President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Supreme Court (SC) Associate Justice Alexander Gesmundo as Chief Justice, a Malacañang official said Friday. “Yes,” Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo said in a text message when asked to confirm Gesmundo’s appointment. Panelo added that Gesmundo was Duterte’s “personal choice” to succeed Diosdado Peralta, who left the judiciary on March 27, one year ahead of his compulsory retirement. Duterte’s spokesperson Harry Roque neither confirmed nor denied Gesmundo s appointment. “As a matter of SOP (standard operating procedure), judicial appointments are confirmed by my office only after they have been received by the Supreme Court. Given the long holiday, the earliest a judicial appointment can be received by the Court would be this Monday (April 5),” Roque said.
SC orders OSG to comment on Carpio motion over Parlade intimidation By NICOLE-ANNE C. LAGRIMAS, GMA News
Published January 29, 2021 10:54am The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) to answer a motion by anti-terror law petitioners led by retired justices Antonio Carpio and Conchita Carpio Morales expressing concern over a military official s intimidation of their group. The court gave the OSG 10 days to comment on the petitioners manifestation and motion. Last Monday, Carpio, Carpio Morales, and law professors from the University of the Philippines urged the SC to order the OSG to explain whether a Facebook post by Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade is an official communication from the government or a public officer.