La Vida Lawyer

VII. Section 17 provides the Department of Justice with the remedy of having an organization, association, or group of persons declared as a...

IV. The Anti-Terrorism Law does not appear to provide a penalty for frustrated or attempted stage of the crime of terrorism. Does this mea...

On March 6, 2007, Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed the landmark legislation on terrorism, known as REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9372, AN ACT TO SECU...

My teachers at the Ateneo School of Law used to tell us stories of how their teacher, former Secretary of Justice Hernando "Nani" ...

From La Vida Lawyer and family

“I would like to say to you all [that] I am completely appalled by your collective gall. You're totally bereft of principle that's w...

It's been three months. My last post was on the birthday of Mother Mary, September 8, and today is the Feast of the Immacualte Concepti...

I skipped law class that day, September 8, 1992. I was already in my second year in law, and I couldn't quite fit in a crop of rabid and...

When Mr. X, a friend of mine, got married, he and his wife prepared their own litrugy for the wedding mass. They picked the Bible passages t...

This is an intermission on the Escritor series. I hate the verbosity of justices. The readings are killing me. Nonetheless, I break that ser...

Manuel L. Quezon III links to a Newsbreak article featuring Escritor, whose case (Estrada vs. Esrcitor) we're tackling in the series L...

We continue from where we stopped the last time. The tricky part is how the Supreme Court framed the issue, and I will show later why this i...

Will Ferrel provides an intermission today. Go ahead sue your neighbor's dogs.

Time was when a person could get his head chopped off for believing that the world was round. Science, religion, and politics were hopelessl...

Following a contentious series on the NLRC abolition, I thought may be this blog should try some fun. I caught the youtube bug lately and fo...

This will conclude the series on the NLRC, but it doesn't mean I will stop talking about that agency here or elsewhere. The NLRC has bee...

Before I proceed, let me just clarify the points I made in earlier posts. I am only against the NLRC. I am not anti-labor law in general. Th...

The first five parts of this series tried to show why the NLRC as an institutional concept of social justice is flawed. Today, I will try t...

The time has come to abolish the NLRC. This is the thesis of this series, and today I will discuss the unfair appeal process of the NLRC and...

The fallacy of the NLRC's bias for labor is the point of this series. And I proceed to show the unfairness of its rules of procedure on...

A pro-labor quasi-judicial agency administering labor relations stalls progress in this country. In the last entry, I pointed out that the ...

Time was when this country was ruled by statesmen who divided it into two: the haves and the have-nots, and built the government on this pre...

The National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) is a specialized quasi-judicial government agency that deals specifically with labor issues. ...

My wife, Ces, told me about a friend of hers who had to skip a vacation in the beaches of Guam, because of the brown tree snake epidemic in ...

I'd appreciate it if anyone can give me information about the owner of the site shown above. The blog copied 99.9% of my Eraserheads rev...

The Makati Regional Trial Court today dismissed one of the libel cases filed against members of the Parents Enabling Parents (PEP) Coalition...

Here is another reaction to the La Mesa essays that came out in the Inquirer last Sunday. The Supreme Court decision on the validity and enf...

I got a phone call today from a friend reacting to the La Mesa essays published in the Inquirer last Sunday. He said we got it all wrong. Th...

Yesterday, the Inquirer published my piece When tribes clash in the Talk of the Town page. It appeared together with Atty Punzi's lect...

The Inquirer reports that the Subic rape trial case has been scheduled for hearings three times a week every afternoon before the Regional T...