By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III One of the casualties of the pandemic is air travel. This columnist recalls that his last plane ride was an inbound flight to Iloilo City from a hearing in Manila sometime in early 2020 about a week before the series of lockdowns would be handed down. “Travel”, according to
July 16, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III With only a measly 3 million people fully vaccinated as of last week’s update from the NTF adviser when the target is 50 million, unmasking as well as the ditching of face shields are still a long way to go in so far as the Philippines is concerned. With
July 13, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III Two weeks into their “search and rescue” operations in the rubble that was the Champlain Towers South condominium in Florida, the elite crews had finally decided to change tack and deploy a “search and recovery” team instead. This means that they are resigned to the grim reality that there
July 10, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III For those of us who are tucked in our homes waiting for the appointed time to receive inoculation against the much dreaded Covid-19 that still has not ebbed from our lives the paranoia is getting ahold of us. Normal life activity had been dreadfully stymied by restrictions which government
July 8, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III The present Family Code of the Philippines which became effective in August 1988 has two immediate progenitors: the New Civil Code which took effect in 1950; and its precursor, the Spanish Civil Code which was in force prior to 1950. These three laws and the respective time frames of
July 3, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III The recent crumbling of a decades-old condominium building just outside of Miami, Florida, USA, baffles structural engineers investigating the incident. The structure used to sit nestled among other buildings facing the Atlantic Ocean; but when viewed from atop, the narrow strip of land where the fallen building used to
June 29, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III News outfits have recently carried as their banner news the pronouncement from the Philippine president that he will order the arrest of those who refuse to be inoculated against Covid-19. No less than the justice secretary as well as the president’s mouthpiece were quick to playdown the pronouncement by
June 25, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III Loosely called rumor (“tsismis”), hearsay had always been denigrated as a worthless piece of evidence. This is because “Under the Rules of Court, “[a] witness can testify only to those facts which he knows of his [or her] personal knowledge[.]” The evidence is hearsay when it is “not
June 22, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III News had swirled immediately when International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda broke the pronouncement that she will be pushing forward with the preliminary examination of the Philippines’ “war on drugs” campaign which investigation commenced last 08 February 2016 and the timeframe covers incidents within the period starting from 01
June 21, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III The pain that every marital break-up wreaks on the family is profound. But when the husband/ father contracts a second marriage without settling the property matters of the first, the confusion it creates seemingly becomes unfathomable- personally and legally. In a society permeated by machismo culture like the Philippines,
June 16, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III Describing the Covid-19 pandemic as like waves in its surges is the perfect metaphor to what everyone is enduring nowadays. It starts as a ripple in one area, then on to the next; and before you know it, an outbreak had already infected a household, an office, a community, or
June 14, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III It is hard to tell which one is more painful: the loss of a loved one because of Covid-19, or the death of a marriage occasioned by a loved one falling out of love. This pandemic had certainly spawned a thousand heartaches. The mental and emotional strain that had
June 9, 2021