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EDITORIAL - No final judgment

February 19, 2011 - 12:00am

When does a court decision become final? It used to be when the Supreme Court handed down a decision for execution and no more appeals for reconsideration were entertained.

Opinion

When lawyers and communicators work together

By Bong R. Osorio | February 14, 2011 - 12:00am

The continuing senate and Congress hearings on the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ fund mess and other high-profile business, entertainment, lifestyle, and politics-led civil and criminal cases are clogging...

Lifestyle Business

PCGG OIC to curtail foreign junkets of execs

October 1, 2008 - 12:00am

The Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) will limit the contingent of officials and lawyers of the commission ...

Headlines

To declog the courts – we must change our litigious culture

By POINT OF LAW By Victor P. Lazatin | December 5, 2006 - 12:00am

The American Bar Association-Asia Law Initiative (ABA-Asia) recently released its report on, and assessment of, the Philippine Judicial Reform effort using the Judicial Reform Index (JRI). The JRI is a tool...

Business

Winning in the court of public opinion

By Bong R. Osorio | July 19, 2004 - 12:00am

We all know that lawsuits or class actions are now part of American and other first-world business landscapes. And although we can challenge an unfavorable court decision on a legal case, there is no right of appeal...

Lifestyle Business

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