Captain Ri s surprise appearance at the Supreme Court
Mar 3, 2021 9:50 AM PHT
Day 4 of the Supreme Court s anti-terror law oral arguments was not without its light moments when Justice Amy Lazaro Javier made mention of Captain Ri, a reference to the character played by Korean star Hyun Bin in the hit K-drama
Crash Landing on You (CLOY).
Constitutional law professor John Molo, known in his circles to be a fan of CLOY, immediately said at the first mention of Captain Ri, Oh yes, I know him, your honor.
Javier later clarified her Captain Ri was a fictional character in her fictional situation. She asked: What if Captain Ri, a soldier in Manila, gets a tip that someone in a house on a particular street in a Cainta, Rizal village is about to blow up 5 hospitals with a flick of his finger?
Supreme Court: A child can bear the mother s surname
Feb 26, 2021 12:01 PM PHT
The Supreme Court has granted a child s petition to bear his mother s surname, ruling that the Philippine Civil Code did not say that a father s surname must be exclusively used by children.
Article 364 of the Civil Code says legitimate and legitimated children shall principally use the surname of the father. Principally does not mean exclusively. This gives ample room to incorporate into Article 364 the State policy of ensuring the fundamental equality of women and men before the law, and no discernible reason to ignore it, said a 15-page ruling by the Third Division, penned by Associate Justice Marvic Leonen. Associate Justices Ramon Paul Hernando, Edgardo Delos Santos, and Ricardo Rosario concurred.
Supreme Court under Duterte carves its place in history of PH democracy
Feb 25, 2021 8:59 AM PHT
The Supreme Court under President Rodrigo Duterte faces a juncture in the history of Philippine democracy – will it be a Court remembered fondly for protecting freedoms or would a future Court spend its initial years dismantling its rulings? We were lucky in the post-EDSA revolution when time and again they were dismantling jurisprudence of the Marcos court and maybe in the future we ll have another court to dismantle the jurisprudence of the past 10 years, law professor Tony La Viña told Rappler s Law of Duterte Land Podcast.