For years, Red-Tagging operated in a regulatory vacuum, shielded by the rhetoric of “national security”. A turning point arrived in May 2024, when the Supreme Court of the Philippines issued [...] ...

The world’s women jurists celebrated the “International Day of Women Judges” last March 10 and underscored their growing influence on the courts and ...

President Chester A. Arthur nominated Justice Samuel Blatchford to the court on this day in 1882. According to Justia, Blatchford was a “precocious talent” who “enrolled in Columbia College (now […] ...

SEN. Erwin Tulfo raised the need to tighten the country’s citizenship verification system amid questions on the nationality of detained mining executive Joseph Sy. Tulfo batted for a stricter process ...

The ongoing war in the Middle East and the energy crisis brought about by the disruption in the oil markets, as Iran continues to block tankers from shipping millions of barrels of crude daily, are ...

But last month, Duterte sat in an austere cell in The Hague as prosecutors argued that he should be tried for crimes against humanity. His only companions were his lawyer, prison staff, and a handful ...

State-run policy think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) is backing Senate Bill (SB) No. 1547, which seeks to create a ...

MANILA: Years after the peak of the government’s anti-drug campaign, congestion remains a defining feature of the country’s jail system, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Jail Management ...

The party-list system was meant to challenge elite politics. But it has instead become a bastion of families and contractors. This report provides the ...

THE Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) proudly announces its partnership with the Supreme Court of the ...

It’s been a year since former president Rodrigo Duterte was bundled off by police on a private plane for his trip to The Hague and detention in a facility of the International Criminal Court. The ...