The rollout served as a crucial platform for legal professionals and aspiring lawyers to enhance their knowledge and understanding of the ethical standards and regulations governing the legal profession in the Philippines.
The 2024 bar exam remains digitalized and regionalized as part of the changes initiated by the SC. Examinees are required to bring one laptop in good working condition with installed Examplify Version 3.4.4 for macOS or Version 3.4.6 for Windows OS.
The parties clashed on key issues pertaining to school facilities and amenities, the impartiality of the CLSA, and ratification of the changes in the CLSA Constitution-and-By-Laws, among others.
In this year's tournament, the topic for the Championship Round is “Let it be resolved that the ICJ be granted independent jurisdiction to implement penalties against States that do not abide by its rulings.”
We say the games are open to all. But access isn’t just about entry; it’s about infrastructure. It’s about who gets to train without interruption, who has the right shoes, or who has to skip practice to fetch water or sell fish.
He looked at the grave of his brother. "Jun is at peace. He's the lucky one. We are the ones who are haunted. We are haunted by the ghosts of what we could have been, what this country should have been."
As much as it's important to take law school seriously, don’t forget to take a step back and enjoy life outside of your studies. Touch some grass. Get involved. Care beyond your own interests.
Withal, we join the nation and every peace advocate in celebrating the theme for this year's Mindanao Week of Peace Celebrations "Sustaining the Gains of Peace, Solidarity and Resilience” celebrated from November 28 to December 4, 2024.
It was as if society only valued one color from the rainbow. I felt disenfranchised, denied the right to excel in school, and left to rot in ignorance because “I was not the favorite color”.
In a time where democracies often fall prey to demagoguery and where lies are weaponized to breed polarization, the need for free and fearless journalism to hold power accountable becomes indispensable now more than ever.
When the Purplehood Committee for 2023 was formed, we had one goal in mind: make the event memorable for the graduating class of Mindanao State University – College of Law, General Santos Extension: the batch In Omnia Paratus.
This is not to suggest that being underprivileged equates to being criminal, rather, this implies that there is a noteworthy link between poverty and criminal behavior that needs to be unraveled.
For an autonomous office like PAO to find itself at odds with the Code of Professional Responsibility and Accountability (CPRA) is not just concerning but a reminder of the unresolved complexities within our justice framework.
The court affirmed the State’s commitment to use a child right-based parenting, caring, and teaching style and to place the child’s best interests in all actions concerning children.
The Supreme Court elucidates the applicability of the Condonation Doctrine, otherwise known as the Aguinaldo Doctrine, following its abandonment in Carpio-Morales vs. Binay in 2016.
On whether gender and power analysis constitute the substantial evidence required in a petition for the issuance of a writ of amparo, the Supreme Court en banc ruled that
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