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07/01/2026

CONGRATULATIONS to all new lawyers!!!

07/01/2026

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23/10/2025

READ: Statement of the Office of the Spokesperson on the passing of Judge Carmela Rosario C. Pasquin.

18/09/2025

Statement of Acting Chief Justice Marvic M.V.F. Leonen on the killing of a lawyer based in Palawan

14/08/2025

𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗳𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗻𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝟯𝟲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲, 𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗗.

14/08/2025

The anti-graft court’s Seventh Division told lawyer Iryl Boco to fact-check any AI-generated research and to strictly observe proper citations of legal authorities.

13/08/2025

✨ Self Reminder:

Not every day will feel like a big win, and that’s okay.
Your worth isn’t in the noise of achievements but in the quiet moments—in showing up, being kind, and holding on with courage. Even stillness can be growth. 🌿💛

25/07/2025

SUPREME COURT NULLIFIES VP DUTERTE IMPEACHMENT

JUST IN: The Supreme Court (SC) has declared that the Articles of Impeachment filed against Vice President Sara Duterte as unconstitutional.

In a press conference, SC spokesperson Atty. Camille Ting said that the high court found that the House of Representatives violated Duterte's right to due process and the constitutional provision on the one-year bar rule.

Ting added that the Senate could not acquire jurisdiction over the complaint and cannot proceed with the trial.

But the high court clarified that the decision does not prohibit the refiling of the complaint after a year.

18/07/2025

17/07/2025

15/07/2025

The (SC) has reiterated that hiding one’s homosexuality from a spouse can be considered fraud and may be used as a ground to annul a marriage.

In a Decision written by Associate Justice Antonio T. Kho, Jr., the SC’s Second Division annulled the marriage of a woman whose husband concealed his homosexuality before they got married.

The couple met on social media. On their first date, the woman noticed that the man seemed distant. The man also avoided sitting beside her. When asked about this, the man said he was just shy and lacked confidence.

The two kept a long-distance relationship as the man worked overseas. Notwithstanding this, they got married two years later.

But the man continued to avoid intimacy and often started arguments to avoid his wife. Just two months after the wedding, he returned overseas and stopped communicating with her.

Later, the woman found magazines with half-naked and naked male models among her husband’s things. When she confronted him, he admitted that he was homosexual. The woman then filed for annulment of their marriage.

The SC ruled that the woman’s consent to the marriage was obtained through fraud, and that the marriage must be annulled on the ground of fraudulent concealment of sexuality, following Article 45(3) in relation to Article 46(4) of the 𝘍𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘰𝘥𝘦.

Article 45 of the 𝘍𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘰𝘥𝘦 states that a marriage can be annulled if one party’s consent was obtained through fraud, as long as the couple did not continue living together after discovering the fraud. Article 46 further specifies that hiding one’s homosexuality or lesbianism from a spouse is considered fraud.

The SC gave credence to the woman’s allegations, noting that the man’s admission and his unexplained silence when his sexuality was being questioned could not be ignored. It found that the husband intentionally hid his homosexuality to persuade the woman to stay and marry him.

Read the full text of the Press Release at https://tinyurl.com/ywadbxwp.

Read the full text of the Decision at https://tinyurl.com/yjn9a89f.

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