During my law school days, in my Criminal Law 2 under now Court of Appeals Associate Justice Juliet San Gaspar, one particular provision of the Revised Penal Code – Article…
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NON EXCUSAT | Atty. Rene John M. Velasco:
FORFEITURE LAW
Up until now, the entire Filipino population is still following the investigation of the inexistent and anomalous flood control projects and the billion peso corruption that they represent. From the…
NON EXCUSAT | Atty. Rene John M. Velasco:
STRONGER PROTECTION AGAINST RAPE AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE
President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law Republic Act No. 11648, which redefines the crime of Statutory Rape as stated under Article 266-A of the Revised Penal Code, among others. The…
NON EXCUSAT Atty. Rene John M. Velasco:
Child Safety in Motor Vehicle Act
Republic Act No. 11229 or An Act Providing for the Special Protection of Child Passengers in Motor Vehicles and Appropriating Funds Therefor, declared that it is the policy of the…
NON EXCUSAT | Atty. Rene John M. Velasco:
THE QUINTESSENTIAL POLITICIAN
President Manuel Luis Quezon was labeled as such by former Senate President Edgardo Angara during the latter’s interview with TV5 journalist Lourd De Veyra for the “Diskarteng Quezon” segment of…
NON EXCUSAT | Atty. Rene John M. Velasco:
ANTI-PHOTO AND VIDEO VOYEURISM ACT OF 2009
Photo or video “voyeurism” means the act of taking photo or video coverage of a person or group of persons performing sexual act or any similar activity or of capturing…
NON EXCUSAT | Atty. Rene John M. Velasco:
OMBUDSMAN
For the past three (3) months, we kept track of and followed the application and search for the next Ombudsman following the expiration of term of Samuel Martires last July…
NON EXCUSAT | Atty. Rene John M. Velasco:
MORE ON PROTECTED WITNESS AND STATE WITNESS
In our last edition, we tackled some of the salient provisions of Republic Act No. 6981, otherwise, known as “Witness Protection, Security and Benefit Act”. We discussed the distinction between…
NON EXCUSAT | Atty. Rene John M. Velasco:
ADMISSION IN CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS
Again, the entire Philippine nation was shocked by the recent exposes and revelations related to the anomalous flood control projects. The pictures of millions, if not billions, of pesos just…
NON EXCUSAT | Atty. Rene John M. Velasco:
SENATE’S CONTEMPT POWER
Recently, prodded by the discovery of numerous unfinished or inexistent flood control projects by a handful of construction companies, the Senate conducted an investigation in aid of legislation where it…