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• After long wait, FOI bill moving?
  Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:59:35 +0000
  EIGHTEEN MONTHS after assuming the Presidency, President Benigno S. Aquino III has finally sent to Congress his administration’s version of the long-awaited freedom of information bill (FOI). The President transmitted the Palace version of the FOI bill to partymates and coalition members in the House of Representatives Thursday evening, ending a year-and-a-half long wait that [...]
  
  
• Not all offenses are impeachable ? Senator-Judges
  Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:09:30 +0000
  ARE THE OFFENSES that prosecution lawyers are trying to pin on Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona really grave enough to warrant impeachment? Several Senator-Judges raised this question after several days of legal wrangling over seeming technicalities by prosecution and defense lawyers during the impeachment trial of Corona. Senator-Judge Joker Arroyo urged the prosecution panel [...]
  
  
• Corona has 24, not 45 properties ? prosecutors
  Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:50:04 +0000
  PROSECUTION LAWYERS came under fire from several Senator-Judges after lead prosecutor Niel Tupas told the impeachment court that Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona only had 24 real properties, and not 45 as earlier reported in the media. During a grilling by senators, Tupas claimed that prosecutors never accused Corona of owning 45 real properties. [...]
  
  
• Covering with responsibility ? Media as first responders
  Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:10:48 +0000
  MEDIAMEN are often some of the first people to respond to a crime scene or a disaster. But if reporters are to cover such incidents responsibly, they need to know the appropriate way of treating a crime scene without contaminating the scene or inadvertently destroying the evidence. In a seminar held by the Philippine Center [...]
  
  
• PROSECUTION PICKS AT CORONA?S P11M LIABILITY
  Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:53:30 +0000
  by Winona Cueva Day 10 of the Chief Justice?s Impeachment Trial took a turn toward greater ambiguity as far as evidentiary relevance is concerned when the prosecutors presented a witness to prove that a corporation that Corona borrowed money from, had already ?died? in the corporate sense. Atty. Benito Cataran, a director at the Securities [...]
  
  



• Prosecution picks at Corona?s P11M liability
  Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:45:25 +0000
  Day 10 of the Chief Justice?s Impeachment Trial took a turn toward greater ambiguity as far as evidentiary relevance is concerned when the Prosecution presented a witness to prove that a corporation that Corona borrowed money from, had already ?died? in the corporate sense. Atty. Benito Cataran, a director at the Securities and Exchange Commission, [...]
  
  
• Typhoon, prompt payment gave Corona big ?discount? on Bellagio
  Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:33:53 +0000
  IMPEACHED CHIEF JUSTICE Renato Corona bought his Bellagio penthouse at 10-million pesos less than its original price because of damage from a typhoon, and because he paid promptly. Megaworld Senior Vice President for Sales and Marketing, Noli Hernandez, stressed to the Impeachment Court that the 10-million peso slash in the price of the Bellagio property [...]
  
  
• Corona properties in Taguig and Makati scrutinized
  Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:00:35 +0000
  by Winona Cueva Two more witnesses took the witness stand to present documentary evidence to show that Chief Justice Renato Corona and his wife owned properties in Ayala and Global City, Taguig that were not in his statements of assets liabilities and net worth. Makati Registrar of Deeds Atty. Constante Caluya, Jr. presented documents on [...]
  
  
• Bellagio penthouse paid for by Renato Corona ? witness
  Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:18:18 +0000
  by Winona Cueva A FINANCE DIRECTOR of the Megaword Corporation stood as 7th withness for the Prosecution on Day 8 of the Impeachment Trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona. Giovanni Ng presented documents pertaining to the sale of Megaworld’s Bellagio penthouse in Mckinley Hill, Taguig to the Coronas. The Deed of Absolute Sale on the [...]
  
  
• Legal jargon swamps viewers of trial
  Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:13:47 +0000
  by Karol Ilagan LEGAL JARGON ruled the second week of the impeachment trial of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona as defense and prosecution lawyers maneuvered around Article II of the impeachment complaint. Appearing for the first time at the impeachment court, Senator-Judge Miriam Defensor-Santiago opened last Tuesday?s session with a prayer followed by an [...]