On Online libel of the CyberCrime law: Writing Well is the Best Defense on Sep 17, 2012 in Internet Law cybercrime law RA 10175 There has been a lot of anxious speculation in social media and the blogsphere about the possible chilling effect of the new cybercrime law (officially the “Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012”, Republic Act No. 10175) on the freedom enjoyed by net...
Why Noynoying is Annoying on Mar 21, 2012It’s sooooo annoying talaga, these people! Grabe! (Or words to that effect) It’s not me talking but Mr. Conrad De Quiros in yesterday’s Inquirer. In his almost apoplectic excoriation of the exponents of “Noynoying”, he takes everything an...
Why Noynoying is Annoying on Mar 21, 2012 in Current Events It’s sooooo annoying talaga, these people! Grabe! (Or words to that effect) It’s not me talking but Mr. Conrad De Quiros in yesterday’s Inquirer. In his almost apoplectic excoriation of the exponents of “Noynoying”, he takes everything an...
Yes, but is it sexual harassment ? on Mar 10, 2012 in Current Events Law Sports anti-sexual harassment azkals sexual harassment The case of alleged sexual harassment raised by Cristy Ramos against 2 members of the Philippine national football team, the widely (and wildly) popular Azkals, has brought the issue of sexual harassment into the forefront once more, this time in the...
Yes, but is it sexual harassment ? on Mar 10, 2012The case of alleged sexual harassment raised by Cristy Ramos against 2 members of the Philippine national football team, the widely (and wildly) popular Azkals, has brought the issue of sexual harassment into the forefront once more, this time in the...
Miriam makes her point on Mar 3, 2012 in Law Politics aguirre contempt of court miriam santiago Emphatically, as always. In taking to task the prosecution team in the C.J. Corona impeachment trial for their scattershot approach which led to the sudden and unceremonious withdrawal of 5 of the 8 articles of impeachment, Senator Miriam Defensor-Sa...
Miriam makes her point on Mar 3, 2012Emphatically, as always. In taking to task the prosecution team in the C.J. Corona impeachment trial for their scattershot approach which led to the sudden and unceremonious withdrawal of 5 of the 8 articles of impeachment, Senator Miriam Defensor-Sa...
Revive blog and Constitutional law on Mar 2, 2012The time has come to revive my moribund blog. I stopped writing and posting as the well had run dry, so to speak, and I found myself at loose ends as to whether I wanted to continue blogging or not. But the most gripping legal drama of the decade beg...
Revive blog and Constitutional law on Mar 2, 2012 in Law Site News bank secrecy law Corona Trial Impeachment The time has come to revive my moribund blog. I stopped writing and posting as the well had run dry, so to speak, and I found myself at loose ends as to whether I wanted to continue blogging or not. But the most gripping legal drama of the decade beg...
Public Deaths on Feb 12, 2011Death is one of the most universal of taboos. Not the rituals of grief, burial and mourning which are many, varied and almost always public in character. I mean the actual act of dying. This most mysterious of earthly transitions is done in private,...