From July 2016 to December 2021, 427 human rights defenders were killed, 2,807 arrested, 1,161 jailed, and 1,367 raided, according to data from human rights group Karapatan. That sums up the war that President Rodrigo Duterte waged against diss
President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs was unconstitutional, said retired supreme court senior justice Antonio Carpio, adding it’s the one policy of the last six years “that should be redressed.”
In this episode of Law of Duterte Land, we discuss estate tax more extensively with tax lawyer Jean Francois “Punch” Rivera III, the assistant national treasurer of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP).Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr.’s
With so much confusion and misinformation about the unpaid P203-billion estate tax of the Marcoses, we digest the issue with a taxation law expert in the easiest way possible.In this episode, Rappler justice reporter Lian Buan talks with lawye
In this episode of the Law of Duterte Land podcast, Lian Buan speaks to Fernando Peñarroyo, Integrated Bar of the Philippines' presidential adviser on energy, who said that for the group, it is more sound for the government to instead take up t
Amid a pandemic, joblessness, and sinking economy, will Filipinos care about killings in the drug war when they fill in their ballot in May 2022? Rappler's Lian Buan talks to Filipino lawyer Perfecto "Boyet" Caparas about human rights as an ele
The anti-graft court Sandiganbayan recently ordered the Royal Traders Holding Co. Inc to pay the Philippine government around P1 billion in Marcos ill-gotten wealth. So, where to find that money, and all the other loot? How has the PCGG been do
Is it time for the Philippines to pass its own memory law that would prohibit denial of the atrocities of the Marcosian martial law?Lawyers Raphael Pangalangan, Gemmo Fernandez and Ross Tugade discussed it in their 2018 paper "Marcosian Atroci
Now that the ICC's Office of the Prosecutor has been authorized to seek evidence to potentially request a warrant of arrest for President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war and the Davao City killings, what happens then? Lian Buan talks to Filipino int
Listen to this episode as we unpack how the justice system, for all its good intentions of due process for all, has fueled the culture against impunity
In this episode, Rappler's Lian Buan talks to constitutional expert and retired Supreme Court justice Vicente V. Mendoza, who says Duterte can run for vice presidency, and can also succeed as president – if the new president who wins in 2022 re
In this episode, Rappler's Lian Buan talks to former justice undersecretary Jose "JJ" Justiniano, who was a deputized prosecutor in the pork barrel scam cases which were started by the Aquino government.
In this episode, we catch up with Angelo Karlo "AK" Guillen and talk about what it's like to be a lawyer facing an immense threat, as he survived an attempt on his life.
Where do lines blur, between national security and civil liberties, and between protected and seditious speech?For this episode, Lian Buan talks to NTF-ELCAC spokesperson Marlon Bosantog, who is part of the task force's legal cooperation clust
This episode is a recap of all the 9 sessions of the anti-terror law oral arguments in the Supreme Court, and how Captain Ri – a fictional character inspired by the hit Korean drama Crash Landing on You – embodied the fundamental issue of the l
In this episode, we conduct a deep dive into the crazy world of electoral protests, and why Bongbong Marcos' annulment of elections bid in 3 Mindanao provinces failed. Rappler's justice reporter Lian Buan talks to former Comelec commissioner Lu
In this episode, we talk to former justice assistant secretary Geronimo Sy, who was chairman of the criminal code committee during his time in the Department of Justice, about how to balance criminal laws and common sense governance in this pan
In this episode we will talk about the process of choosing who gets to sit on the Supreme Court Bench, and whether the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) is accountable for appointees who turn out bad.
This disproportionate number and an alarming surge at that have compelled lawyers to call on the Supreme Court – exercise your extraordinary powers to respond to this extraordinary problem. For them, this is no time to be passive.
In this episode, we talk to lawyer Carlo Brolagda of the group IDEALS, or the Initiatives for Dialogue and Empowerment through Alternative Legal Services (IDEALS), which is the latest group to investigate the drug war.
If you're still high over Day 1 of the Supreme Court oral arguments on the anti-terror law and anticipating Day 2, here's a podcast episode to recall the highlights of the stirring hearing held by the High Court.Our guest for this episode is