Tag Archives: Chief Justice Sereno

Statement of Liberal Democrats for Justice on judicial independence

Ang batas, dapat patas sa lahat. Dapat predictable ang batas. Hindi tama na sa gitna ng boksing, iibahin ang batas. Hindi tama na ginagamit ang batas para sa kapritso ng nasa kapangyarihan. Dapat batas, at hindi ang tao, ang nananaig. Hindi tama na ipagsawalang-bahala ang batas, pambansa man tulad ng naka-ambang pagsipa kay Chief Justice […]

STATEMENT OF PARTIDO LIBERAL ON MACHINATIONS AGAINST THE CHIEF JUSTICE, VIOLATING THE CONSTITUTION

The bedrock of democracy is the rule of law and an independent judiciary branch with unfettered freedom to decide impartially, in accordance with its members’ conscience and facts. Regrettably, what we are seeing is the slow weakening of judicial independence and dilution of check-and-balance that endangers democracy and ushers in the rule of autocracy. What […]