Posts Tagged ‘justice’

No more free mail for Philippine courts

Philippine courts might have to start paying for their mail next January because it has become too expensive for the Philippine Postal Corp. (PhilPost) to shoulder postage for court documents. Acting postmaster general Antonio De Guzman has written the Supreme Court to ask it to review franking privileges granted to the courts by two Presidential [...]

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Only whores use condoms

An itinerant toy seller accused a Manila Police District officer recently of raping her in one of the MPD’s offices. After a bounty was placed on his head for the rape, Police Officer 3 Antonio Bautista Jr negotiated a surrender. Claiming he was set up, Bautista said his supposed victim is actually a prostitute. ‘Itinerant [...]

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Wikipedia, attorney-at-law

The Office of the Solicitor General recently lost an appeal for relying on that internationally respected legal luminary Atty. Wikipedia for its arguments. In an attempt to discredit expert testimony from a psychologist that both parties in a marriage annulment case “suffered from psychological incapacity” and should not have been married in the first place,  [...]

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