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Back to square one for party-list system

By MIKHA FLORES THE latest Supreme Court ruling on the party-list system has stirred up a maelstrom of controversy and revived debates over its real aim barely a month before the May 13 mid-term elections.

Back to square one for party-list system

Ateneo schoolmates now head two branches of govt

By VERA Files PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino made history by appointing Lourdes Sereno as the country’s first female Chief Justice, but he also broke tradition by setting aside the seniority rule and naming to the highest judicial post one of the Court’s youngest associate justices, who also happens to be his college schoolmate.

Ateneo schoolmates now head two branches of govt

Sereno: ‘Vision, Courage, and Accountability’

By LALA ORDENES DURING the Judicial and Bar Council public interviews for the new Chief Justice, Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Representative Maria Milagros N. Fernan-Cayosa remarked , “Everything I would have wanted to ask in order to get to know (Maria Lourdes P.A. Sereno) better is contained in this paper.” Fernan-Cayosa was talking about Sereno’s position paper presented before the IBP in its public forum on July 20.

Sereno: ‘Vision, Courage, and Accountability’