By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III While everyone was enmeshed in the pandemic, a law which was enacted a year before Covid-19 struck which had been envisaged to change the legal landscape in terms of putting up securities or collaterals in credit transactions, had escaped much attention. REPUBLIC ACT No. 11057 entitled “An Act Strengthening
October 27, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III We see it on TV. We hear about it from the grapevine. The culprit could have gotten away with murder if not for his or her DNA having been imprinted on the crime scene. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid is exclusive to an individual save for the rare occurrences
October 20, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III There is a soft spot for widows. In the Bible, Jesus was moved with compassion upon seeing a widow burying her only son. In 1986, Marcos was forced to flee to Hawaii in haste because the Filipino people’s adulation for Ninoy Aquino’s widow was overwhelming. (It was reported that
October 12, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III Documents that leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) now known as the Pandora Papers had blown the cover of world leaders, politicians and billionaires who have stashed away their monies offshore in shell companies. In China, thousands took to the main office of the Evergrande- a
October 6, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III Radiocarbon yielded evidence of foot tracks on a lakebed in New Mexico suggesting that some 23,000 years ago, the first few Americans had traveled from Asia through the Bering Strait during the last Ice Age when the land was dry. The discovery was recently described in a paper entitled
October 1, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III How powerful can words be? In 1970, Philippine Supreme Court justices had a legal ruckus of sorts over a line in the decision of the Court of Appeals which they felt had poached into the President’s prerogative on how to go about with the expulsion of an unwanted foreigner.
September 28, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III As a rule, there is no escaping the legal consequences of a contract. But given that we are in a pandemic, would that be a justifiable reason to walk away from a contract? Article 1159 of the New Civil Code articulates the rule on the binding effect of
September 24, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III To get a jab or not to get a jab: That is the question of the hour. In the United States, Democrats and Republicans are divided on the issue. Following the trajectory of the Biden administration which is in favor of mandatory inoculation, Democrats are pushing for laws requiring
September 17, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III Sipping my Americano (black) at my favorite coffeeshop while working on some court-bound pleadings due in the week, my attention was caught by an old lady begging outside. She seemed mindless of the pandemic and the surging Delta variant of Covid-19 that is rampaging in Southeast Asia. My mind
September 15, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III Much of the legal world had been waiting for the full text of the recent decision of the Supreme Court (SC) in Tan-Andal v. Andal (G.R. No. 196359, May 11, 2021). So when it was finally uploaded on the SC website on September 06, 2021, lawyers excitedly downloaded a
September 11, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III “But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate” remarked Fyodor Dostoyevsky in his novel The Brothers Karamazov. Thus is the case of many hasty marriages between young couples. Taking the plunge into marital life early on without planning, their marriages are
September 7, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III The plan to open casinos in Boracay had gained steam and this was reportedly confirmed by the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR). Concededly, gambling per se is not illegal nor is it a nuisance such that it should be abated when it rears its head. In a democratic
September 2, 2021