The Lazy Lawyer

IN THE MATTER OF: SAVE THE SUPREME COURT JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE AND FISCAL AUTONOMY MOVEMENT VS. ABOLITION OF JUDICIARY DEVELOPMENT FUND (JDF) AND REDUCTION OF FISCAL AUTONOMY.  January 21, 2015 FACTS: This case involves the proposed bills abolishing the Judiciary Development Fund  and replacing it with the "Judiciary Support Fund." Funds collected from the proposed Judiciary Support Fund shall be remitted to the national treasury and Congress shall determine how the funds will be used. This matter was raised to this court through the letter  dated August 27, 2014, signed by Mijares and addressed to the Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court. The letter is captioned: Petition for Mandamus with Manifestation to invoke the Judicial Independence and Fiscal Autonomy as mandated under the Constitution ; docketed as UDK-15143. Petitioner argues that Congress "gravely abused its discretion with a blatant usurpation of judicial independence and fiscal ...

  FACTS: On 13 January 2012, herein petitioner Richard Chua tiled before the Office of the City Prosecutor (OCP) of Manila, a complaint charging one Letty Sy Gan of forty (40) counts of violation of Batas Pambansa Bilang (BP Blg.) 22 or the Bouncing Checks Law.  After conducting preliminary investigation, the OCP found probable cause and, on 22 March 2012, filed forty (40) counts of violation of BP Blg. 22 before the MeTC. Consequently, the MeTC informed petitioner that he has to pay a totalof ₱540,668.00 as filing fees for all the forty (40) counts of violation of BP Blg. 22.  Finding the said amount to be beyond his means, petitioner consulted with the MeTC clerk of court to ask whether he could pay filing fees on a per case basis instead of being required to pay the total filing fees for all the BP Blg. 22 cases all at once.  The MeTC clerk of court opined that petitioner could not.  Petitioner was thus unable to pay any filing fees. On 18 April 2012, pe...

 Lagman v. Medialdea (2019) FACTS: These are consolidated petitions filed under Section 18, Article VII of the Constitution, assailing the constitutionality of the third extension from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019, of the declaration of martial law and suspension of the privilege of the writ of  habeas corpus  in the entire Mindanao. Before the expiration of the second extension of Proclamation No. 216 or on December 4, 2018, Secretary Lorenzana in a letter  to the President, recommended the third extension of martial law and the suspension of the privilege of the writ of  habeas corpus  in the entire Mindanao for one year from January 1, 2019 up to December 31, 2019.  Secretary Lorenzana wrote the recommendation to the President primarily to put an end to the continuing rebellion in Mindanao waged by the DAESH-inspired groups and its local and foreign allies, particularly the Daulah Islamiyah (DI), and the threat posed by the Co...

To get a copy of the Word File, click this link:  Insurance Law Reviewer Article 1-75 P.D. 612 Insurance Code (As amended R.A. 10607) "GENERAL PROVISIONS” "Section 1, IC. This Decree shall be known as ‘The Insurance Code’. "Section 2, IC. Whenever used in this Code, the following terms shall have the respective meanings hereinafter set forth or indicated, unless the context otherwise requires: "(a) A contract of insurance is an agreement whereby one undertakes for a consideration to indemnify another against loss, damage or liability arising from an unknown or contingent event . "A contract of suretyship shall be deemed to be an insurance contract, within the meaning of this Code, only if made by a surety who or which, as such, is doing an insurance business as hereinafter provided. "(b) The term doing an insurance business or transacting an insurance business, within the meaning of this Code, shal...