Daily Serving of Legal Matters

Photo Credit to www.newsinfo.inquirer.net via Google. This post is taken from the website of the House of Representatives of the Philippines (www.congress.gov.ph).  A bill establishing the Philippine Academy for Climate Change Adaptations and Disaster Risk Reduction has been filed in the House of Representatives. Rep. Rufus B. Rodriguez (2nd District, Cagayan de Oro City) said the objective of climate change body he proposed in House Bill 3987 is to provide students an opportunity to learn from experienced trainers and local communities about both the theory and practice of disasters risk reduction and climate change adaptation. "It will enrich the research activities of the students and increase their practical knowledge of the possibilities and the implementation of the theory at the community level," Rodriguez said. Rodriguez said disaster risk reduction is the concept and practice of reducing disaster risks through the systematic efforts to analyze and reduce the causal f...

Finally after the myriad legal maneuvers invoked by both parties, the crime of plunder has been charged to those persons linked to 10-Billion Peso PDAF Scam.  Among the personalities indicted are the three Philippine Senators and the alleged Pork-Barrel Queen Janet Lim-Napoles. A photo of some of the accused (Napoles, Revilla, Enrile and Estrada) in the Plunder Case taken from Bing Images. As a matter of fact, the Filipinos have witnesses the real life drama unfolded on their very eyes.  The warrant of arrest has been ordered for the arrest to one of the accused Senator Ramon "Bong" Revilla, Jr.   This post is not to prejudice the minds of the Filipinos nor it would insinuate the guilt of all of the accused.  It would simply tell how the crime of plunder is committed and other salient features of the plunder law as embodied in Republic Act No. 7080 or the Anti-Plunder Act.  Definition of the crime of plunder: Any public officer wh...