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FORMER justice secretary and now Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra yesterday maintained that he acted in accordance with the law when he continued the move of his predecessor at the Department of Justice (DOJ) to use convicts as government witnesses in the drug charges that the Duterte administration filed against former senator Leila de Lima.
What can the Marcos administration gain from bringing the country back to the fold of the International Criminal Court?
MANILA, Philippines — Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla will seek clarification from Malacañang on whether the country wants to rejoin the International Criminal Court, in line with resolutions filed at the House of Representatives urging the government to cooperate in the ICC probe on the drug war killings.
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, November 17) — Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra on Friday said former Senator Leila de Lima has the privilege to help the International Criminal Court (ICC) in its investigation of the Duterte administration’s bloody war on drugs now that she is a private person.
MANILA, Philippines — The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) is being tapped to join a task force that may be created to look into the reported sale of Philippine passports for P500,000 to foreigners pretending to be Filipinos, Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra said yesterday.
MANILA, Philippines — Former Senator Leila De Lima can help the International Criminal Court’s prosecutors but cannot expect cooperation from the Philippine government, Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra said.
MANILA, Philippines — Former Supreme Court senior associate justice Antonio Carpio yesterday urged the Philippine government to challenge China to submit to arbitration its territorial dispute over Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal to finally settle which country has sovereignty.
MANILA, Philippines — President Marcos yesterday suspended the implementation of the sovereign wealth fund or Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) to further study its implementing rules and regulations (IRR) and ensure that safeguards are in place “for transparency and accountability.”