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Philippine Bar Association The Philippine Bar Association (PBA) has urged the government to be a party or to accede to 1970 Evidence Convention being administered worldwide by the Hague Conference of Private International Law (HCCH). The PBA said that with the Philippines’ participation in
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[PODCAST] Law of Duterte Land: ICC hopes alive in Supreme Court ‘loss’ Jul 23, 2021 12:50 PM PHT Rappler.com The Supreme Court voted 15-0 to dismiss the petitions challenging President Rodrigo Duterte's unilateral withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC). It's one of those types of decisions – the ruling is to dismiss the petitions, but the reasoning contains a lot for "positive" takeaways. Lawyers call the reasoning just obiter dictum, or an opinion that doesn't have legal weight. What makes reasoning an obiter is debatable, said Professor Andre Palacios, who teaches Pub...